خلاصه ماشینی:
"" The people of faith, the faithful believers (moʾmenun), are therefore, according to technical vocabulary, those initiated into the secrets of religion, the people of spiritual hermeneutics, adepts of the imam, "Shiʿites," a mass of "people of the exoteric" (ahl al-ẓāher), unable to fathom depth and an elite consisting of "people of the esoteric" (ahl al-bāṭen), initiated into spiritual levels of the faith.
According to theories of cycles, which are far from being clear, ever since creation, the world has known two kinds of government (dawla): of God in which prophets and imams, as guides of light and justice, are able to openly teach esoteric truths, and that of Satan in which these truths can only be transmitted and practiced secretly, as the world in this case is under the influence of the guides of darkness and injustice.
The dual conception of reality, illustrated by "complementary pairs," can be represented by a vertical axis of Initiation, since the transition from manifest to hidden, from exoteric to esoteric, occurs thanks to the sacred teaching of the imams, proximity to the divine and understanding of the mysteries of being.
(3) Imam as Revealed Face of God. This aspect of imamology forms the most esoteric chapter of theology and seems to constitute the ultimate secret of Shiʿite doctrine.
The dual and dualistic visions of the world as well as the omnipresent figure of the imam as bearer of walāya constitutes the core of Shiʿite doctrine upon which many religious beliefs and practices are grafted."