After perceiving palpable meanings and concepts man has...

After perceiving palpable meanings and concepts man has gradually moved towards spiritual meanings and concepts. And naturally he has used and employed the same words which he first utilized in connection with material matters. It is just as the scientists do not coin new terminology for their sciences and do not make use of the words which are in use in common parlance, but give them particular meanings which are different from those which they carry in common terminology.

In regard to the use of the words Wilayat and Wilayat , Raghib says that the former means "help" and the latter denotes to be "in charge". It may be said that in reality both the words have the same sense i.e. in charge. In regard to the words, Waly and Mawla , Raghib says that both of them have the same meaning. The only thing is that they are used sometimes in the active and sometimes in the passive sense. Then he mentions the occasions on which these words are used.…