[198] Then he stated: 'Verily, our cosmic adversary is progressively transfigured into every single form that departs from the human archetype, to the extent that one of them is killed a thousand deaths, slaughtered a thousand slaughters, dies a thousand natural deaths, drowns a thousand drownings, and is burned a thousand burnings while passing through human garments—and he experiences the exact equivalent of these retributive measures within the states of animal transfiguration.

And Shaykh Ahmad Salman al-Khatib stated in his treatise Badihat al-Afkar: '{Then fasten him into a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits} ¹ . Thus, the chain [al-silsilah] represents every distinct species/kingdom into which the disbeliever descends after departing from the human form. For example, he enters the form of sheep, inhabiting their males, females, adults, and offspring seventy distinct times, during which he undergoes slaughter, killing, burning, drowning, natural death, consumption, and commercial trade.