As for the increase among the believers, they have said regarding it that Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, creates from the gatherings of the believers souls resulting from their glorification, their praising, and their affirmation of the Oneness of their Lord, and that the increase is formed from righteous deeds and pure, wholesome essences.

As it was mentioned in Al-Nahj by the Commander of the Faithful, Ali, His Praise is sublime, in his statement to Kumayl ibn Ziyad: "O Kumayl, command your family to go forth in the pursuit of noble traits, and to go about the needs of him who is sleeping. For by Him whose hearing encompasses all sounds, no one deposits joy into a heart except that Allah creates for him from that joy a kindness; so if a calamity descends upon him, that kindness flows down to him like a descending torrent, driving it away from him as a strange camel is driven away." Ended.

As for their third objection, it is: in which of the bodies will the standing be on the Day of Resurrection before Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, for the account, if the soul had many bodily garments.

The answer: we take it from the Proof of Islam, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, in his book The Incoherence of the Philosophers (p. 299), as he says that the Resurrection is the resurrection of souls in bodies,

and it is possible that the souls be returned to any body whatsoever, whether it be from the matter of the first body or from other [matter], or