Imamah

• abstract: The Nizārī Ismā'īlī belief in the Imamah differs from the Twelver Shi'a belief because the Imam in Ismailism has the Noor (Being, Presence, Light, Immanence, Spirit) of God (Allah) within him. Since there is only the zāhirī (exoteric) bodily difference between each living Imam from the next living Imam, therefore the first Imam after the death of Prophet Mohammad, that is Imam Ali, and every Imam in the succession after him, has been one and the same in the Spirit because they all possessed the Light of God within them.

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