It will not be accepted...

It will not be accepted, or, at least, their words will not be accepted with all of their hearts. This reason which can be called `trustworthiness’ is one of the most important reasons for their being immaculate. In other words, how is it possible that God give His Commands for His people to follow a person who is not truthful for if this person were to err or sin, people would not follow him?

If they do, they have erred and if they do not, they have weakened their position of leadership, in particular, since the position of the leadership of the Prophets completely differs from the leadership of others for people receive their entire program of life from the Prophets. Because of this, we see that the great commentators speak about the verse, “O you who have faith! Obey Allah and obey the Apostle and those vested with authority among you…”.

(1) Saying that the command for absolute obedience is because the Prophet is immaculate as well as `being charged with authority’. Pure leaders like the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUHH) are referred to as `being charged with authority’. If not, God would never give the command to unconditional obedience to them. Another way of proving the immaculateness of the Holy Prophet in relation to any sin is that any factor of sin is condemned to defeat within the very being of the Holy Prophet.

Clearly not, if we saw such deeds from someone, we will be assured of the fact that he is no longer normal and has become insane because an intelligent person would never do these things. When we analyze such behaviour, we see that the ugliness of such deeds is so clear that an intelligent person would never even consider them. It is here that we can imagine what this short phrase means and say that every intelligent and healthy person is `free of unacceptable deeds.

From this stage, we take a step further. We see some people who are free from unacceptable deeds.