The soul of man in the intermediate state possesses the same...

The soul of man in the intermediate state possesses the same form as in his life in this world. [3] If he be a man of virtue, he lives in happiness and bounty in the proximity of those who are pure and close to the Divine Presence. If he be a man of evil, he lives in affliction and pain and in the company of daemonic forces and "leaders of those who have gone astray." [4] God, the Most Exalted, has said concerning the condition of a group of those in the state of felicity, "Think not of those…