Imam (Arabic, "be secure," "trust"), is the Muslim word for trust in Allah, and in the Prophet Muhammad, and thus in the content of his message. In the Qur'an, therefore, Imam is sometimes synonymous with islam (allegiance to God).
Imam Mahdi -- The prophet whose return is awaited by some Islamic sects in order that he can complete the work started by Mohammed.
Incarnation -- Manifestation of the soul as a three-fold personality, under the Law of Rebirth.
Imam Ali was Mohammed's cousin and the husband of his daughter, Fatima. Ali is said to be the second person to embrace Islam. The term Shia or Shiite (a Muslim of the Shia branch) is derived from Shiat Ali, or partisans of Ali.
The caller to prayer (muezzin) in the heavens is Gabriel and the prayer-leader (imam) is Michael. God created a house for Himself in Paradise (al-Bayt al-Ma`mur) to which the angels make pilgrimage every day five times.
If the philosopher is identified with the Imam or the descendent of the prophet Muhammad, that is only a concession to public opinion; it is a ‘noble lie’, a ‘pious fraud,’ a matter of ‘considering one’ ...
The Ismailis recognise a continuing line of descent from Ismail, the eldest son of the sixth Twelver" Imam. They acknowledge seven (the sixth plus Ismail) divine teachers as earthly representatives of seven transcendent divine Powers.
In Islam the Ismailis took the idea of the Imam of the Prophet's Household & metamorphosed it into the Imam-of- one's-own-being, the perfected self who is beyond all Law & rule, who is atoned with the One.
 See also: World, Islam, Christ, Jesus, Ritual
  
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