What is The Return?

What is The Return?

The Return is usually understood to mean returning to the physical world after death.

Ismail Ibn Hammad Al-Jawhari and Majd Al-Deen Al-Fairuzabadi have both said:

There are certain individuals who believe in the Return, meaning returning to the physical world after death (Al-Jawhari 1987, vol. 3 1216, and Al-Fairuzabadi 1979, vol. 3, 28).

The technical meaning, which we intend to clarify, is as follows:

The Return is another world. It is one of the three Great Days of God, the other two being the Day of the Qaim and the Day of Judgement. It has its own laws and system, as has been mentioned in many religious accounts of the progeny of Muhammad pbuhap, as we shall see.^[1]

After mentioning two of the days, the Day of the Qaim (Riser) and the Day of Judgement, Sayed Ahmad Al-Hasan pbuh said:

What is left is the Day of the Return. It is definitely another world. Otherwise, it would not have been singled out as a day, meaning a time and age independent of the physical world and the Day of Judgement. As such, it is a separate day.

Some of his other statements include the following:

The name of the Return indicates its meaning, may God grant you success. It is a return, meaning a repetition. People who have died will return, a test that has ended will be repeated, and days that have passed will be repeated.

It is another test. The organization of the Return and the order in which these people return is in the hands of the Exalted and Almighty.

The Return is another world that is different than this physical world. Therefore, its characteristics are different than this world.

We will closely examine the answers of this purified successor from the progeny of Muhammad pbut, but first we will present a summary of the most important things that the Shia scholars, or at least the majority of them, have said about the Return, which is a matter that is well-established, and linked to their ideology.