A number of old and modernists Orientalists have dealt with critical and important issues in the Shiite thought in general and in the Imami Shi'a doctrine in particular. Among these topics are the noble verses that point in an unacceptable way and raise doubts and questions, and it is the subject of The Family of the Prophet (pbuh). It is well known that there are several verses that show the historical and social (i.e., the family) meaning of the people of the house, especially what has been mentioned in Surah al-Ahzab verse No. 33, when God Almighty says in the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful (Allah wishes only to remove ar-Rijs (i.e. evil deeds and sins) from you, O members of the family (of the Prophet PBUH) and to purify you with a thorough purification) . What is meant by the term “Ahl al-Bayt” here, according to many Interpreters of the Qur’an , is that they are the people of the Prophet’s house, or as the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers be upon him and his family, indicated in his noble hadith known in Shi’ite thought by the hadith of the people of the garment; .
The Orientalists are like a number of Muslim Interpreters of the Qur’an who do not want and even do not accept that this expression (the people of the house) is a clear indication and is specific to the family of the Prophet (PBUH) who are related to the relationship of the kinship (the first wombs) and the closest relatives. So they wandered right and left in their interpretations, which basically aimed to expand the context of this expression to make it appear as if it was general and comprehensive. An attempt by them to distance it from its central text, meaning the people of the house of the Messenger of God. There are Muslim Interpreters, and al-Tabari stands at the top of the list, who interpreted the saying of God Almighty that he does not refer to the Messenger of God, Imam Ali, and the righteous group, but rather to a general content related to the recommendations of God Almighty and his instructions directed to the mothers of the believers.