However, the moment the human soul [al-nafs al-nasutiyyah] exits the animal into which it had been transferred, its meat and everything carried by its physical structure become strictly prohibited."

Microscopic degradation [al-Waskh] represents the minute classifications of transfigured life, including creeping vermin [al-khashash], geckos [al-waza'], beetles, organisms that inhabit undergrowth and excrement, lizards, jerboas, spiny-tailed lizards, flies, worms, and whatever resembles or shares a genus with them.

Inanimate fixation [al-Raskh] is the transfer of a soul so that it becomes bound and locked within silver, gold, iron, stone, steel, wood, dry matter, and minerals that are carved. And what condition is more wretched than that of a soul that was once accustomed to luxury and comfort, only to find itself bound inside instruments of torment, fiery furnaces, and the deep recesses of refuse and nests?

[199] And Muhammad ibn Shu'bah stated in his book Haqa'iq Asrar al-Din: 'Al-Baqir—Mighty is His Majesty—stated: "As for dislocation [al-Faskh], it encompasses other than the animal kingdom.