The word raj'at, meaning of turning back of a group of people to the world after death and before resurrection, is one of the Shiite teachings which is inextricably tied with Mahdism, apocalypse events, emergence of Imam Mahdi and his insurrection. To prove this teaching, the Shiite scholars have proposed valid reasons from which we can refer to verse 83 of Surah An-Naml. According to the Ahlul-Bayt’s narrations, this verse points to unity of a group of people in this world. By the help of Imamiyah narrations and consensus this verse is interpreted as a valid Quranic text referring to rij’at; however, for Sunnis’ commentators, the verse is a reason of resurrection. In accordance with the rest of the Quran verses, all human beings are gathered in the great resurrection; therefore, the day in which all creatures are gathered is separate from the day in which members of a group are gathered.

Believing in the Return is proved based on traditional reasons in Allameh Tabatabaei and Imam Khomeini’s viewpoints. However, these two great scholars have dealt with proving the origin and manner of return by using a rational method. Due to the meaning system of the verses and narrations, Allameh Tabatabei considers the Return as one of the degrees of God’s representation in the universe which is itself based on rational arguments while Imam Khomeini, in addition to accepting the principle of RAJ’AT based on traditional reasons, has proved the quality of RAJ’AT by assumption of stages of the worlds of existence and correspondence of those stages with the stages of the soul as well as by explicating the developmental status of human soul subject to the return in the expression of angelic imagination of human soul. Therefore, the principle of return in view of these two great scholars, is provable with both theological and interpretive methods as well as philosophical and mystical ones within two fields of ontology and anthropology that both of them are within the realm of the truth of monotheism. In addition to having traditional principles and reasons, this specific Imamyeh’s idea includes rational principles and reasons either.