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Reincarnation And The Nature And Progress Of The Soul
Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice
As to your question concerning reincarnation: The Bahá’í view of the life after death can in no way be reconciled with certain Indian and Sufi doctrines which teach that the human soul can pass from one body to another. This doctrine, known as metempsychosis, is not only too materialistic in its view, but is purely imaginary and fatalistic. Bahá’u’lláh teaches that after its separation from the body, the human soul begins to lead a new life, of which we can have no definite knowledge, in the same way as the child in the embryo cannot visualize the type of life it is destined to lead in this world.
1934-08-10 on behalf of to an individual re Indian & Sufi reincarnation doctrines
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