The Stages of Explaining the Principle of Imamah in the Period of the Imams’ Presence

Sometimes the ignorance and/or non-awareness in the trend of explaining the revealed teachings brought about the emergence of the misgiving that the Shi’i teachings have changed or transformed. Thus an exact cognition of the course of the Ahl ul-Bayt (p.b.u.t.) teachings explanation needs paying attention to all effective historical elements and conditions in the age of the Prophet and Imams in that the gradual development of the teachings with two quality of (first) concise-detailed process and (second) drawing four relative periods in the age of Ahl ul-Bayt’s (p.b.u.t.) presence, will get clear. The present writing, by focusing on the teaching of Imamah, tries to explain the state of the process of explaining this principle with regard to the historical circumstances in the Presence Age, and also shows the revealed content in its course has not changed nor transformed.