Ibn Babawayh and Ayyashi have narrated from Muhammad Ibn Muslim that Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (‘a) said: Since the Almighty Allah has created the earth, he has created seven worlds, which are not the progeny of human beings. He has created them from the Adeeme Arz; that is the face of the earth and created them one after another with their world.

Then He created the father of that human being. Then he created his progeny from him. No, by Allah, Paradise has never been without the souls of believers, from the day it was created; and Hell has never been without the souls of disbelievers since it was created. Perhaps you think that when Judgment Day arrives, the Almighty Allah will send the bodies of the folks of Paradise along with their souls to Paradise and settle the bodies of the inmates of Hell along with their souls in Hell. No one will worship Allah in the towns, and neither will He create anything that might worship Him, believe in His oneness, and pay respect to Him.

It is not like this; on the contrary, He will create other creatures that may worship Him with His oneness and will create another earth that may continue to bear them. He will create another sky, so that it may shade them. Have you not heard that the Almighty Allah has said:

يَوْمَ تُبَدَّلُ الْأَرْضُ غَيْرَ الْأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاوَاتُ

“On the day when the earth shall be changed into a different earth, and the heavens (as well)” (14:48).

And He said:

أَفَعَيِينَا بِالْخَلْقِ الْأَوَّلِ بَلْ هُمْ فِي لَبْسٍ مِنْ خَلْقٍ جَدِيدٍ

“Were We then fatigued with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation” (50:15).

This implies the creation that will appear after the Qiyamah.

Also, in al-Khisal it is narrated through authentic chains of narrators from the same Imam in the interpretation of another verse that he said: When the Almighty Allah annihilates this creation and destroys this universe; and settles the folks of Paradise in Paradise and sends the people of Hell to Hell; He will change this universe into a new universe; and will bring about fresh creation without male and female; who will worship Him with His oneness. He will create for them another earth, which they will inhabit, and create another sky, which will shade them. Do you think that Allah has created only this earth, and He has not created any other creation?

On the contrary, by Allah, the Almighty Allah has created thousands of worlds and thousands of Adams, and you are from the last worlds and the last Adams.

We should know that great tradition scholars have recorded these traditions in reliable books and Imamiyyah theologians have neither objected nor agreed with them; and this is not opposed to rational arguments; but they have not reached to the extent that they may create certainty.

It is narrated from the Holy Imams (‘a) in many traditions that: Many traditions comprising strange and extraordinary things will reach you from us and your minds will refuse to accept them, but you must not make haste to reject and deny them and to regard its utterer trivial; you should leave their interpretation to us.

Thus, because of this tradition, we neither deny them nor have certain faith in them; we leave them as possibilities.

Haqq Al-Yaqin was completed at the end of Sha’ban, 1109 A.H. Since it was written in hasty circumstances and in a very hectic period, I beseech the readers not to make haste in making objections against it; because years have passed since arrangement and classification of the original Imamiyyah principles; and their writings have disappeared, and most claimants of knowledge have turned away from them. They have taken Mu’tazila as their leaders and abandoned the holy verses and widely related traditions.

Although in this treatise, I have been able to compile only limited discussions, I beg you to seek forgiveness for me and pray for my well-being.

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and benedictions be on the best of His creatures, Muhammad and his purified progeny.