Typology of the Arguments and Accounts for the “Return” Theory in the Thought of Shiite Scholars

The theory of “return” (raj’at) has always been studied in the margine of the issues about events as to the end of the world and the coming of Imam Mahdi (PBUH) in the history of Shi’ism. Shiite scholars argue that the very doctrine of “return” is supprted by the Qur’an and Ahlulbeit’s (PBUT) hadiths; they did disagree on the details, though. Two important issues are the shiite scholar’s conception about “return” and how it would happen, both have passed through modifications within different cycles of the shiite history, to be examined.
İn their descriptive-analytic essay, the authors try to clarify different arguemnts for it and how it would happen in the views of Shiite scholars up to now. There are five points of view about how “return’ would happen. İn the course of their study, the authors have achieved the following points: that most advocates for consensus on “return” are not contemporary with us, that almost all those who espouse that it is not a necessary belief are contemporary with us, and that after Mulla Sadra and in the course of his transcendent theosophy, this theory has passed through a modification as to how it would happen.