The Human Previous Life from the Viewpoint of Baghdadi Theologians

While the Kufan and Qomi Mu¡addiths and Mu¡addith-Mutakallims accepted the idea of previous life for Ahl ul-Bayt (p.b.u.t) and all humans, the Baghdadi theologians including Sheikh Mufid, Sayyed MurtaÃa and Sheikh Ùusi, have taken a negative position in this subject. The current essay attempts to tackles the theoretical causes of this giving up. One can acquire these causes from what these theologians themselves explicitly or implicitly expressed. This essay shows that taking an allegorical interpreting approach to narrations, belief in non-authenticity of Khabare Wa¡ed (individual narration), considering human soul as accident and not being based on itself, falsification of belief extremism, falsification of reincarnation which is demanded by the belief in previous life, and non-remembering the events of the previous life are amongst the bases and reasons lead the Baghdadis to reject the previous life.