\n Myth 7...

\n Myth 7: \n Maraja is the \u2018Niab-e-Imam\u2019 [34] vicegerent of Imam-e-Zaman -asws specialist of the religious affairs (e.g., several PhDs in various disciplines of religious affairs, i.e., jurisprudence.!

\n Fact 7: \n In a very simplistic way, a second-in-command or a deputy of a person is expected to possess not only similar qualities but also to have the same speciation.\u00a0 For example a heart surgeon\u2019s deputy cannot be a butcher although he may be able to quite comprehensively dissect a human body.\u00a0 Similarly a monkey or an owl can never be appointed as a second-in-command to an eye surgeon-otherwise it\u2019s a recipe for disaster.\u00a0 We Shian-e-Ali -asws believe that our Masomeen -asws were the very first and most superior creation, in the form of \u2018The Noor\u2019, of Allah -azwj .\u00a0 On the contrary, human beings, were created from clay and came to this world without any trace of knowledge.\u00a0 We acquired knowledge and gained strength while growing but lost all of them, again, in our later part of lives.

As Allah -azwj Says: \n Has not man considered how We created him from a drop of semen? Yet he is an open adversary [35] ! \n and \n Anyone We grant long life to, We switch around within creation (return to childhood). Will they not use their reason?

[36] \n We take a further step to relinquish the remaining doubts regarding the position of a Mujtahid during the occultation of Imam-e-Zaman -asws , \n When we take a closer look at the history, we realise that the four \u2018representatives\u2019 of Imam-e-Zaman -asws never ever claim to be \u2018Naib-e-Imam\u2019 but were content to be called \u2018couriers\u2019 for Masoom Imam -asws , and one by one, before leaving this world, they appointed their own \u2018Naib\u2019 until the last one, who was told by Imam-e-Zaman -asws .