 and if the supporter of this section resorted to trickery by saying the dust of the body does not perish so it remains and life returns to it. we say then that it is correct to say the dust returned to life after life was cut off from it once and that would not be a return of the human being nor the return of that particular human being because the human being is a human being not in his substance and the dust in which he is since all the parts or most of them are changed to him by food and it is that same first one so it is in consideration of his spirit or his soul
وإن احتال ناصر هذا القسم بأن قال تراب البدن لا يفنى فيكون باقيا فتعود إليه الحيوة. فنقول عند ذلك يستقيم أن يقال عاد التراب حيا بعد أن انقطعت الحيوة عنه مرة، ولا يكون ذلك عودا للإنسان ولا رجوع ذلك الإنسان بعينه لأن الإنسان إنسان لا بمادته والتراب الذي فيه إذ يتبدل عليه سائر الأجزاء أو أكثرها بالغذاء وهو ذاك الأول بعينه، فهو باعتبار روحه أو نفسه