وَ أَنْزَلَ فِي حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ وَ هِيَ آخِرُ عُمُرِهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَ أَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَ رَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلامَ دِيناً وَ أَمْرُ الْإِمَامَةِ مِنْ تَمَامِ الدِّينِ وَ لَمْ يَمْضِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) حَتَّى بَيَّنَ لِأُمَّتِهِ مَعَالِمَ دِينِهِمْ وَ أَوْضَحَ لَهُمْ سَبِيلَهُمْ وَ تَرَكَهُمْ عَلَى قَصْدِ سَبِيلِ الْحَقِّ وَ أَقَامَ لَهُمْ عَلِيّاً ( عليه السلام ) عَلَماً وَ إِمَاماً And He -azwj Revealed regarding the Farewell Hajj, and it is at the end of his -saww age Today I Perfected your Religion for you and Completed My Favour upon you, and am Pleased with Al Islam as a Religion for you [5:3] .
And the matter of the Imamate is from the completion of the Religion. And he -asws did not pass away until he -as clarified to his -saww community the information of their Religion and explained to them the ways, and left them upon a direction of the way of the Truth, and he -saww established Ali -asws for them as a flag and an Imam -asws .
وَ مَا تَرَكَ لَهُمْ شَيْئاً يَحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهِ الْأُمَّةُ إِلَّا بَيَّنَهُ فَمَنْ زَعَمَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَمْ يُكْمِلْ دِينَهُ فَقَدْ رَدَّ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَ مَنْ رَدَّ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ فَهُوَ كَافِرٌ بِهِ And he -saww did not neglect anything for them that the community would be needy to, except that he -saww clarified it.
So, the one who claims that Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic did not Perfect His -azwj Religion, so he has rejected the Book of Allah -azwj , and the one who rejects the Book of Allah -azwj , so he is a disbeliever in it.
هَلْ يَعْرِفُونَ قَدْرَ الْإِمَامَةِ وَ مَحَلَّهَا مِنَ الْأُمَّةِ فَيَجُوزَ فِيهَا اخْتِيَارُهُمْ إِنَّ الْإِمَامَةَ أَجَلُّ قَدْراً وَ أَعْظَمُ شَأْناً وَ أَعْلَى مَكَاناً وَ أَمْنَعُ جَانِباً وَ أَبْعَدُ غَوْراً مِنْ أَنْ يَبْلُغَهَا النَّاسُ بِعُقُولِهِمْ أَوْ يَنَالُوهَا بِآرَائِهِمْ أَوْ يُقِيمُوا إِمَاماً بِاخْتِيَارِهِمْ Are they recognising the worth of the Imamate and its place in the community that they are allowing their own choice with regards to it?
The Imamate is more majestic and worthy, and greater of glory, and loftier of place, and more impregnable of side, and more remote from thoughts than that the people could be reaching it with their intellects, or attain it by their opinions, or that they should be establishing their own imam by their choice.