1) The prophetic tradition of Thaqalain:
The Thaqalain Tradition is one of the best known traditions quoted by many, including an amazing number of authoritative Sunni sources, as coming directly from the person of the Prophet (SAW). Several important points can be deduced from this and similar traditions:
a) As the holy Quran shall remain with the people until the Last Day, in like manner, the Prophet's Household will remain to the Last Day, This means that the world will never be without an Imam and true leader.
b) By means of these two great trusts the Prophet (SAW) has secured all the scientific and religious needs of the Muslims and has designated his household as reference sources of knowledge and insight.
c) No muslin has the right to disown their (the Household's) guidance and leadership.
d) The entire body of knowledge and religious requirements and needs of the
people are vested in the Prophet's Household.
e) If people obey the Prophet's Household and adhere to their words they shall
not go astray.
The term 'Thaqalain" means two 'Thegls'. In the explanatory accounts of the traditions and narratives as well as in the interpretations of the holy Quran, the term 'Theql' is used indicating various meanings and concepts such as 'weighty heritage", a 'great thing", "weighty object', 'precious thing", "invaluable trust', etc. However, in the Thaqalain Hadith, by the two trusts is meant the Quran and the holy Prophet's Household.
3) Molk:
Philosophers and thinkers have reasoned the necessity of the existence of a world standing as a dividing fine between the world of nature (Molk) and the world of divinity (God). This world which is separate from matter and conditions of time and place is absolutely called the world of divinity (Alam-e-Malakoot). The philosophers and the 'Orefa" or Gnostic, whose arguments are confirmed explicitly by specific Islamic texts, maintain two stages for the world of divinity (Malakoot): 'High' and 'Low". The higher stage is termed (Malakoot-e Aala) or the superior Malakoot and is a world regarded as the birthplace of human intellect. The lower stage is named the "lesser Malakoot" and is known to be the world of illusion and fancy (Alam-e-Methal or kheyal).
Lahoot implies the sacred essence of God which can not be understood through the senses but can be proved through logical reasoning and intellectual argument. As the Divine Essence comprises the entire attributes and qualities of perfection, it is therefore considered the most perfect world.
It can be deduced from the wording of the Thaqalain Tradition and from the accounts given by the ex-pounders of ahadith and interpreters of traditions that the Greater Theql (Theql-e-Akbar) is the Holy Quran.
According to the sources concerned with the concepts of the Thaqalain, the Great Theql (Theql-e-Kabir)denotes the progeny or household of God's messenger (SAW), that is, the Infallible Imams.
The term "Taghootian" means followers of Taghoot. It has been used in the Quran on eight occasions. Taghoot was also the name of an idol of the Quraish Tribe in pre-Islamic days. This name has been used to mean Satan. Most exegetes consider the word Taghoot applicable to any idol, object or individual, that may prevent one from doing good, and drag him into perversion and perdition. "Taghoot" has also been described as a rebel against all goodness and the sublime values.
'Howz' means a pool, pond, water basin or ditch dug in the ground to store water in. In Islamic literature the term 'Howz' usually precedes the word 'Kothar' thus meaning the Kowthar Pond, a stream located, according to narratives, in Paradise or in here after (Mahshar). In this context, however, Imam Khomeini (P.U.H) has interpreted the 'Howz' as an eternal reality implying a point at which unity is arrived at by the merger of pluralities. Just as several creeks or streams emptying into the same pool merge together and become one, at the Resurrection time the Holy Quran and the Household of the Prophet (SAW) converge on one other and form one entity.
10) The merging of plurality with unity:
In philosophy "plurality" connotes the hierarchy of beings and the variance of the phenomena of being, whether material or non-material And, 'unity" conforms to the penultimate essence of Divine Being which is the source and fountainhead of all beings in the universe. In view of this definition, the station of convergence or union of plurality with unity or oneness, a stage or station which is eternal and is above plurality and below unity and is the medium by which, at the beginning of creation, plurality has emerged from unity and, at the end of the world all join up to form the ultimate oneness.