Hadith 6

‘Al Ihtijaj’ – From Hisham Bin Al Hakam, ‘The atheist said to Al-Sadiq-asws, ‘How can there be Resurrection for the soul (to be) with the body, and it has already decayed and the body parts have separated? A part could be in a city, the predators could have eaten it, and a part in another (place), its insects tearing it apart, and a part could have become dust, a wall being built with it with the mud! ’
He-asws said: ‘The One-azwj Who Created it from without there being anything, and Imaged it upon without there being an example (to copy from) having preceded it, is Able upon repeating it, just as He-azwj had Begun it’. He said, ‘Clarify that for me’. He-asws said: ‘The soul is resident in its place – Soul of the good in illumination and space, and soul of the evil doer in narrowness and darkness, and the body becomes dust from it (was created from), and whatever was thrown out by the predators and the insects from their interiors, for whatever had been eaten and torn apart, all that would be in the soil, preserved with the One-azwj from Whom nothing escapes even the weight of a particle in the darkness of the earth, and He-azwj Knows the number of the things and their weights. And that the dust of the spiritualists is at the same status as the gold in the soil. So, when the Resurrection happens, it would rain upon the earth, and the earth would grow (it) then churn it with a churning of the swallowing, and the soil would become the person, like the gold becoming from the soil when it is washed with water, and the butter from the milk when it is churned. The soil would gather every transformed part, and it would be transformed by the Permission of Allah-azwj the Exalted to wherever the soul may be. Thus, the image would return by the Permission of the Imager (to be) like its body, and the soul would permeate into it. When it is complete, he would not deny anything from himself’ – the Hadeeth’. [5]