Tahafut_al-Tahafut-transl-Engl-van-den-Bergh

I say:
the mediation of the body, but the body is not a means for
the soul in the latter’s creating bodies or in causing the
existence of souls and of things which are not related to
bodies’, we answer: ‘And why is it not possible that there
should be amongst the souls a soul which has the
characteristic of being so disposed that both bodies and
incorporeals are produced through it? The impossibility of
this is not a thing known necessarily, nor is there a proof for
it, except that we do not experience this in the bodies we
observe; but the absence of experience does not
demonstrate its impossibility, and indeed the philosophers
often ascribe things to the First Existent which are not
generally ascribed to existents, and are not experienced in
any other existent, and the absence of its being observed in
other things is not a proof of its impossibility in reference to
the First Existent, and the same holds concerning the body
and its soul. ‘
As to his assertion that bodies do not create bodies, if by ‘creating’ is
understood producing, the reverse is true, for a body in the empirical world
can only come into being through a body, , and an animated body only
through an animated body, but the absolute body does not come into
being at all, for, if it did, it would come into being from non-existence, not
after non-existence. ‘ Individual bodies only come into being out of
individual bodies and through individual bodies, and this through the
body’s being transferred from one name to another and from one definition
to another, so that for instance the body of water changes into the body of
fire, because out of the body of water is transformed the attribute through
the transformation of which the name and definition of water is transferred
to the name and definition of fire, and this happens necessarily through a
body which is the agent, participating with the becoming body specifically
or generically in either a univocal or an analogical ways and whether the
individual special corporeality in the water is transformed into the
individual special corporeality of the fire is a problem to be studied.
And as to Ghazali’s words:
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