this state of affairs went on until the Sixth holy Imam JA'FAR IBNE MUHAMMAD...

this state of affairs went on until the Sixth holy Imam JA'FAR IBNE MUHAMMAD, when the corrupted form of Islam was also called Islam, and the genuine or the original form of it which was with the holy AHLUL BAIT and practiced secretly by the faithful devotees to them needed to be distinguished with some particular name to identify it from the corrupt form.

Those who remained attached to the holy House of the holy Prophet, were known as the SHIAS of ALI IBNE ABI TALIB, and the True or the Original Islam was identified with the name MAZHABE-JA'FARI or SHIA'ISM (i.e., the Original Islam followed by the SHIAS). Thus SHIA'ISM is no other than the Islam-Original, but it is only identified with the name 'SHIA'ISM' just to distinguish it against the corrupted form.

One can judge the Truth in this statement from the brief explanation of the Faith and the Article given in this book. Thus the Original Islam is identified with the distinguishing token name 'TASHAYYU' or SHIA'ISM and its followers are known as the SHIAS. It means, the followers of the Islam-Original without the subsequent adulteration effected in it.

SHIA'ISM (Islam-Original) strictly follows the holy QUR'AN, and the holy Prophet guided by the divinely commissioned Twelve holy Imams, whose physical and spiritual purity and personal excellence, the Islamic World as a whole unanimously acknowledges. SHIA'ISM in order to help people to remain attached only to the Word of God as interpreted by the holy Prophet, wants its followers to strictly abide by the following Declarations of the holy Prophet.

1- At the start of his apostolic mission he declared that Ali was His Deputy, his Vicegerent, his Successor or his KALIF, with his orders to the assembly to listen to Ali an d to obey him. 2- Before the huge assembly of pilgrims numbering to several thousands, after his Last HAJ or the pilgrimage on the Eighteenth of ZILHAJ 10 A.H. at GHADEER-E-KHUM: "Of whomsoever I am the MAULA (or the Lord), this Ali is his MAULA (or the Lord).

3- Just before his departure from this world saying: "I leave behind me amidst you Two important things, The book of God (the holy QUR'AN) and the members of my family. As long as you keep yourselves attached to these Two, you shall never get astray after me. These Two shall never be separated from one another until they meet me at the Spring of KAUTHER".