Religious education is rich in gems still widely unknown relative to the inferior human thought. Inheritance among those concepts that the surface of it is considered and it has a depth that we unknowingly have crossed it.Inheritance, on the one hand, is a plan for social and economic system of Islam and on the other hand, is a concept with the issues of guidance and its history has a strong link with the notions of velayat and duty. "Inheritance in the age of Absence" is an attempt to have a closer look at the depth of this concept and showing that a different picture of this concept forms good things in the beings of individuals and society. The true understanding of how goodness came into existence and developed and the role of prophets, imams and the religious scholars in it can lead to a new look at the role of the Imam in the time of Absence and the role of the religious scholars and project the area of responsibility before our eyes.

The ideal government in the age of Occultation is a government that has the advantages of existing governments and is free from their defects. The purpose of this research is to investigate the types of governments and to prove the best type of it during Absence. For this purpose, with a purely rational method, the types of existing governments can be classified as follows: Democratic, monarchy and Islamic government. From this point of view, it is proven with rational evidence that the Islamic Republic has all the advantages of democratic government and monarchy, but does not have their disadvantages. Of course, the reason for the ineffectiveness of the Islamic Republic in some areas, including "economic and livelihood" is not because of the structure, but because of the disobedience of some elites and some people to the "guardian of society". Elites by failing to enlighten people, and people by voting for incompetent and inefficient officials without investigation.

The establishment of an Islamic government and the enforcement of related rules and regulations is one of the most challenging issues in the periods of occultation. It has been of great concern for Shi‘a scholars since the end of Minor Occultation so that they have made attempts to provide an appropriate solution for this problem according to the Qur’anic verses and narrations. The answers Shi‘a scholars given to such questions as whether or not the establishment of an Islamic government in the period of occultation is essentially permitted, and if permitted, who has the right to establish the government, and if not permitted, what the Shi‘a people have to do to run their own affairs, whether they are permitted to take a tyrant as their ruler, what is the duty of Muslim scholars in this regard, and the like vary. Since the Muslim scholars in Safavid period had the opportunity to enforce Islamic rules and regulations and, in many cases, their Islamic decrees on the necessity of obedience were identical with the Safavid king’s orders and in some cases the Safavid king was not also able to defy Islamic decrees, careful attention to the above questions has become so important that the present article attempts to find an answer for the questions raised by the Muslim scholars in the Safavid times.

The purpose of the present study is to review transformation of the family institution before the reappearance of Imam Zaman (PBUH). The method of study is descriptive analysis and according to the narrations about transformations in family and society at the Age of Reappearance, the negative changes afflicting family at this age involve: Dissolution of ethics due to lack of rationality in family, secularism in families leading to the deterioration of the status and character of family members, freedom of women and the spread of feminist thoughts, negative transformation in the structure of family from traditional to modern, negligence in religious and spiritual upbringing of children. More negative transformations in the institution of family during the age of reappearance are as follows: Distancing from Mahdaviat culture and instructions due to lack of educating children in families as well as extremist materialism, the domination of worldly emotions or lack of rationality in families. With respect to the domino effect of ethical vices, if enough attention is paid to upbringing of children, other vices disappear in family and society as they will be replaced with virtues one after another.

Truly waiting faithful Muslims are committed to Islamic ethics and polite and well-behaved as the religion also requires them to be. Moreover, in the traditions relating to the Waiting period, sometimes a specific moral trait seems to be emphasized and stressed because of the special circumstances of this (Waiting) period. In this particular era that we live, there are problems that a truly waiting Muslim should strengthen itself and develop certain moral attributes in order to deal with them properly. With this perspective, an occultation Code can be proposed that can also be referred to as the occultation of Applied Ethics. Some of these are moral traits are patience, hope, submission, chastity and helping generously. In the present article, an attempt is made to explain why the emphasis of innocent leaders (Twelve Imams) on these moral traits is significant. Moreover, the need to strengthen these traits in this day and age is explained according to the analysis of occultation.

There are two viewpoints about the possession of khums; one is the dominant view among Shia jurisprudents who believe that the person of Imam is the owner of Khums. The evidence for this viewpoint are based on the verse concerning Khums in Sura al Anfal and some traditions on this subject. The counterpoint of this view, is the opinion of some jurisconsults like Imam Khumeni who believe Imam is not the personal owner of Khums. Rather it is related to the office of Imamate and the Imam should use it for the promotion of Islam.  The authors hold that the second view is consistent with the principle of justice. In other words, justice requires the authenticity of the second view.