Explaining the meanining of guardian on the basis of the verses of guardianship

A Quranic survey of the meaning of Divine Imamate and guardianship can be of considerable effect in attaining the knowledge on the position of Divine Imamate. A survey of the word guardian, wali, makes it clear that it is originally posited for a single meaning in all cases. The meaning intended by consists in preference in possession and usage. The words wali and mawla in many verses including those of guardianship have been used for preferring in possession and usage. For Shiite theologians and in the sayings of Imams, wali refers to those whose following is necessary, that is, to Imams. This paper, studying the verses and traditions of the subject and the views of Shiite scholars with a crisis of Sunni`s, has concluded that in the verses of guardianship, wali means a pure man preferred to ownership and usage, that is, Imam whose following is necessary.