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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Shi'ite Encyclopedia (chapter 10) The Sunnis and the Idea of Al-raj'a Quran aside, we have no Hadith from the Sunnis to support the idea of al-Raj'a, except probably for the case of return of Prophet Jesus (AS).

To disclaim the idea that the Imams of Ahlul-Bayt will finally have rule on the Earth without any rival, and to make contrast between the beliefs, the Sunni traditionists and commentators have suppressed any Hadith that could imply the issue of al-Raj'a. Wherever they found any narrator who has narrated a tradition implying al-Raj'a, they have accused him of being Shia and extremist.

They also interpreted the verses of al-Raj'a/al-Karra in Quran to the Day of Judgment, though we have already seen from the words of Ahlul-Bayt (AS) (who are the most and only qualified individuals to interpret Quran) that this would require believing in contradiction and non-sense. The Sunnis discredit the notion of al-Raj'a as being a kind of transmigration of the soul. They have not, or choose not to differentiated between transmigration and bodily resurrection.

The meaning of transmigration is that the soul moves into another body, and this is not the same as bodily resurrection. The meaning of the latter is that the soul returns to the same body with all its individual characteristics; and al-Raj'a is the same as this. If al- Raj'a were a kind of transmigration, the restoring to life by Jesus (AS) must also be transmigration, and the Resurrection in the Day of Judgment would be like that as well, which we know it is not true.

The same evidence that proves the possibility of resurrection will also prove the possibility of al-Raj'a. There is no reason for amazement, except in that it is unusual for us and we are not accustomed to such things in the life of this world. But we know of no cause or impossibility that would bring us near to refutation of al- Raj'a, except that human imagination does not find it easy to accept what is extraordinary. So there is no more reason to refute it than there is to refute resurrection.

Allah states in Quran: He said: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away. Say: He will revive them Who brought them into existence in the first place, and He is Cognizant of all Creation.