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Who Has to Select the Imam? 2 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Who Has to Select the Imam? 2 2022-12-14 435 Views Imamate , Imams In this part of the article titled “Who Has to Select the Imam?”, we shall continue with other relevant issues such as the consensus and the Imamate of Hazrat Ali ibn Abi-Talib. Contents 3. Consensus and Council 4.

Ali ibn Abi Talib: The most worthy one The totality of these three directions are clear reasons why the Prophet (s.a.w.a) most certainly took steps for the determination of his successor which we will mention in the later lessons so that this logical reality will become more clear, because the Holy Prophet was never negligent in this area even though many political waves, after the Prophet, tried to fill the people’s minds with the idea that he had neglected to select a successor.

Can one really believe that considering that when the Holy Prophet left the city for just a few days for a conflict (like Tabuk), he did not leave Medina empty of his successor and he took steps to assign a person to succeed him and act in his place, he not guarantee the future generations after his death by selecting his successor but rather left the Ummah in the middle of an abundant number of groups who had differences of opinion on the method of the continuity of Islam?

It is clear that the lack of assigning a successor would have been a great error for Islam which was recently formed and developing. Our intellect and logic tell us that such a situation is impossible to have come from the Prophet of Islam. Those who say that this was the responsibility of the Ummah must at least show that the Prophet directed this issue whereas no such proof of this is offered 3.

Consensus and Council Let us assume that the Prophet of Islam (s.a.w.a) ignored this vital issue and the Muslims themselves were duty-bound to choose his successor, but we know that consensus means the consensus of the Muslims and such a consensus did not exist in relation to the first caliph. Only a group of the who lived in Medina made the decision to do this and the rest of the cities of Islam were not in agreement and did not participate in this decision.

In Medina itself, ‘Ali, peace be upon him, and a large number of the Bani Hashim did not participate in any way. Thus, such a consensus cannot be accepted as such. And if this method be correct, why did the first caliph not use the same method in choosing the second caliph?