he is not except the result of the actions of the previous existence, so know then that the soul which found Allah is liberated from the newborn, and old age, and pain, and death, and it drinks from the water of immortality.
[209] And from the Pythagoreans: Verily the rational soul is immortal because it is derived from an immortal source, so when it rids itself from the fetters of the body it takes for itself another body by re-embodiment, then it does not cease moving from one body to another until it purifies itself from sin and returns to the bosoms of the Greatest, the Highest Spirit which is its substance.
And from what indicates the reality of transmigration is His saying, the Exalted: {How do you disbelieve in Allah and you were dead, then He gave you life, then He will cause you to die, then He will give you life, then to Him you will be returned} 1 and His saying, the Exalted: {Were We then fatigued by the first creation? Nay, they are in confusion from a new creation} 2
And verily Plato, peace is upon him, sees that the human soul is immortal, it is not newly produced and does not change,