\n The break-away sects of Shias, i.

\n The break-away sects of Shias, i.e., Six Imamis (Ismailis and Agha Khanis), seven Imamis (Waqafis), do not adhere to the concept of twelve Imams after Rasool Allah -saww , so either they stop at seven Imams [2] or continue with following imams after imams from the descendants of Ismail Ibn Jafar -asws (calling their present imam as hazir imam ) and now number of their imams are reaching nearly fifty.\u00a0 Within the twelve Imamis, there is no except, during the occultation of the 12 th Imam -ajfj , some among leaders and mullahs are calling themselves imams, even ascribing themselves as the inheritors of Prophets -as (i.e., Ahl Al-Zikr \u2013 21:7 ) [3] or as standing-in imam until the time of the reappearance of the 12 th Imam -ajfj \u2013 the latter ones have recently emerged during the last 40 years or so, prior to that they used to call themselves \u2018Naib e Imam\u2019 (deputy of Imam).

\n An obvious question comes to our minds, how do we recognise a Divine Imam? Are there any characteristics through which an Imam appointed by Allah -azwj can be recognised so that we follow the unchanged religion of Allah -azwj in its pure form and become from the sincere followers? [4] .

\n There are several unique characteristics bestowed upon a Divine Imam -asws by Allah -azwj which can never be demonstrated by others, below we quote extracts of Ahadith only highlighting some of unique features enjoyed by a Divine Imam, complete Ahadith are given in Appendix II.

\n Hadith 1 \n \u0648\u064e \u064a\u064e\u0631\u064e\u0649 \u0645\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u062e\u064e\u0644\u0652\u0641\u0650\u0647\u0650 \u0643\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u0631\u064e\u0649 \u0645\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u0628\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0646\u0650 \u064a\u064e\u062f\u064e\u064a\u0652\u0647\u0650 \u0648\u064e \u0644\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u0643\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064f \u0644\u064e\u0647\u064f \u0638\u0650\u0644\u0651\u064c \n And he -as ws would see that (which lies) behind him -as ws just as he -asws would see from in front of him -as ws , and there would not happen to be a shadow for him -as ws .