and the variation in the dispositions and faculties acquired during their structural attachment to the body. Thus, the soul is brought into being concurrently with the body, acting as a specific differentiation [faslan dhatiyyan] similar to all other essential differentiations, and it endures after its separation from the body through specific accidental traits belonging to it—traits that did not exist prior to its attachment to the body."

And Ibn al-Makzun said [in verse]:

By the dawning of the sun of Love after its setting

To my sight, within my eye, transmigration [al-tanasukh] is proven true.

The commentator, Sheikh Suleiman al-Ahmad, said: "The mashriq is the dawning of the sun and its locus; it is a mimetic infinitive [masdar mimi] meaning 'shining forth' [al-shuruq], and al-ghurub means setting or disappearance. Al-Tanasukh [transmigration] is the transition of the rational soul [al-nafs al-natiqah] from one body to another. His saying 'bi-'ayni' means according to the visual perception of the eye, not based on ultimate metaphysical reality.