Examining the Transfer of Action in the Verses and Narrations

One of the major issues in the field of eschatology is the transfer of good and evil acts of people to one another. Since such a phenomenon is not possible on the basis of philosophical rules and Qur'anic verses, some scholars have sought to justify it, so that on the one hand, they can resolve the apparent conflict in the narrative arguments, and on the one hand, it can be a warning for believers to practice more piety. According to the novel theory that the writer has developed, human action has two kinds of effects: internal effects, which are pertinent to the doer and cannot be transmitted to anyone else, and external effects for which the act and the soul, are the numerical cause, and hence, the act is transferable to non-doers. The arguments for the transfer of actions is related to the external effects. Using a descriptive-rational method, this paper first explains the main issue by elaborating on the arguments for the transfer of acts, and then proves the selected viewpoint by analyzing verses and narrations and criticizing some other views.