The semantic approach and attention to conceptual relationships by providing systematic solutions discover new semantic levels in Qur'anic research and provide the context for understanding the meaning of vocabulary without any presupposition.The term "caliph" is one of the important Qur'anic concepts related to the "Imamate", which deals with issues in the Qur'anic reading of this term in Islamic theology. Therefore, the exact explanation of this term and the discovery of how it is related to the position of Imamate is necessary. Therefore, the present article uses a descriptive analytical method to understand the meaningful elements of the "caliph" and its adaptation to the position of "Imamate". The analysis of the verses including the term "caliph" and its derivatives based on the conjunctions and the combinations of the term in the text of the verses and the discovery of its semantic components led to the discovery of the meaning of the term "caliph" and the adaptation of the position of "prophecy" and " Imamate "has been named" califah Allah ".The Caliphate among the people is followed by chase, afterlife and time delay, but in the succession of man by God, it has a qualitative delay and contains the highest sacred and spiritual authority. Considering the semantic components of the "caliph" in the Qur'an and considering the companions of this term, all divine forgeries in the affairs of theatrical and the developmental are to the divine will, and the existence of traits such as faith, good deed and science is necessary for the position of the substitute. Therefore, the concept of the word caliph corresponds to the subject of Imamate in the Shiite epistemic system.
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