the form of a pallid man, who will say, “I am the one who made you go thirsty by day and kept you awake by night.” (1)

Likewise, the ḥadith about the grave states that a person’s righteous deed will come to him as a handsome youth, while his evil deed will appear in an ugly shape. (2)
In the same way, death itself will be brought on the Day of Resurrection in the form of a white-speckled ram (3) and so on.

People hold two opinions regarding the transformation of non-corporeal acts into tangible bodies. Some permit it, saying that the deed itself is turned into an independently existing entity; others deny this, maintaining that something is merely created from it.

Related to this is the ascent of deeds to Allah, exalted is He: the written scrolls rise up, and the reports likewise mention that the very forms of the deeds ascend, as in the ḥadith, “Indeed, Subḥān Allāh, al-ḥamdu lillāh, and lā ilāha illa Allāh produce a constant buzzing around the Throne as they make mention…”