Consequently, there strikes him within each specific matrix [qalab] exactly what used to strike him during his human state, including sickness, health, weakness, and fatness. Thereafter, he exits into the form of goats, where he is afflicted with the exact equivalent; then he passes into cattle, and into every animal whose consumption is permissible—and this process is termed re-embodiment [Naskh]. This operates identically across the entirety of the Five Kha'at [al-Kha'at al-Khamsah], in accordance with the statement of the Exalted: {That ye shall journey on from plane to plane} 1 . And this constitutes the closer punishment before the greater punishment, matching the stanza of our Master al-Khasibi—Allah sanctified his person:
That process is of the closer punishment, lasting until
The Day of the Greater Punishment, terrifying and perpetual.
And he stated further: