And according to the Indians: the human soul is indeed immortal, ascending and returning to its Creator in the midst of numerous existences which it spends dwelling in the world of bodies, and in them it is selected and perfected, and at that point it finds Allah by the perfection of the intellective and moral qualities, and as for general life, then it has two localized faces: the first of them the descent, meaning the falling of the spirit into matter, and the second the ascent, meaning the graduation of the spirit in the path of re-embodiments to the divine unity.

[208] And from the speech of Krishna, His glory is mighty: Verily the body in which the soul is settling is a vanishing thing, indeed the soul is hidden from sight, eternal, its weighing is impossible, and as for its portion after death, then it is attached to the secret of transmigration, so just as the horizons of the desert open to the rays of the stars, likewise the ambiguities of life reveal by the light of this truth when the body dissolves by death, so if wisdom was predominant over the soul it flies to those lofty regions in which the pure ones witness the High, and if desire was possessing yet, then it has to settle anew among those who attached to the earthlies, and every newborn, happy he was or wretched,