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Inquiries into the worldview of Shiite hyperbolists, though most of them have disappeared, can be useful and functional in some ways. This is what the present article deals with. Contrary to the famous history of the wilayat, i.e. its attribution to Sufism or Hakim Termezi himself, the present article roughly resolves some of the ambiguities related to the teachings of Sufism and the sophistications of some Orientalists in the field of Sufism by presenting its framework and roots among Shiite hyperbolists. In the personal, allegorical interpretations of hyperbolists, the Shari'ah (the sacred law) had the two layers of the interior and the exterior, and the origin of this duality was the god who had one immortal or heavenly aspect and five mortal or worldly aspects. And he was the heir to the heavenly God who was the protector of the interior of the Shari'ah. Every one of these aspects was transmitted to the silent and speaking prophets. As a result, the heavenly gods or the supreme earthly gods were transmitted from one body to another or were reincarnated. Later in Sufism, the heir to the heavenly or supreme god was moderately changed to owliya (guardians). And even the term wali (guardian) was defined as baqa’ bellah (subsistence through God) or rabb (the Lord). From the perspective of hyperbolists, this wali, who had surpassed the exterior of the Shari'ah, which was for the public, was indeed God Himself and was not imagined to have any obligation and to be worried about the Heaven or Hell and even the apparent death.

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Death is one of the states of the human soul. Due to its alliance with the body, the human soul has various faculties and states. One of the most significant of these faculties is ‘death’. In Mulla Sadra's view, the soul brings its various potentials to realization through employing the body. And when the soul no longer needs the body after attaining perfection, it leaves the body, and enters the Hereafter as a result of this separation. Meanwhile, since the soul is inherently alive and the body comes to life through the soul’s prudential addition, the soul is the exact replica of consciousness and self-awareness. The soul continues to exist after death, and it is the body which embraces death and gets decomposed due to losing the mediation of the soul.