"It is like the likeness of a thing. Do you not see that when you take a copy of a book, the copy is exactly what you took, yet it is not the original object itself? Rather, you have transferred its content to another place. As for Maskh (transformation), it is a moving image that has been inverted or turned away from the human form."

If we contemplate what Imam al-Sadiq—Exalted is His Might—has provided, we see a clarification as clear as the sun in the midday sky. It serves as evidence that the Prophet and his Household—Exalted is Their Might—spoke of transmigration and reincarnation (Taqammus). While some sects did not adopt this belief, others did; for not everything the Messenger—Exalted is His Might—proclaimed was embraced by the entirety of his Ummah, chief among those suppressed truths being the matter of the Imamate itself.