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Give us joy and comfort in our spouses and offspring, and make us imams of the God-wary.” (25:72-74) Besides, the Holy Quran has used the word Imāmah to point to the oppressive leaders and rulers, who misguide their followers and nations, leading them toward corruption and torment in the world and Hereafter. Talking about Pharaoh and his troops, the Almighty Allah said in His noble Scripture: “So We seized him and his hosts and threw them into the sea.

So observe how was the fate of the wrongdoers — We made them leaders who invite to the Fire, and on the Day of Resurrection they will not receive any help — We made a curse pursue them in this world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be among the disfigured” (28:40-42).

On this basis, the Shia’s claim is nearer to what the Holy Qur’an has ordained, since Allah — the Glorified and the Mighty — has explicitly expounded with no doubt, that the Imamate being a Divine appointment Allah imparts upon whomever He wills, and it is the covenant of Allah of which He deprived the oppressors.

And since the Prophet’s other than ‘Ali (PBUH) have ascribed partners unto Allah during the pre-Islamic era, thus they turn to be among the wrong-doers, being incompetent for Allah’s covenant encharging them with Imamate and caliphate.

While the Shia’s claim stands firm that Imām ‘Ali ibn Abi Tālib was the only one, from among all other , having the right to Allah’s covenant of Imamate due to the fact that he has never worshipped other than Allah, and never prostrated to any idol, the reason why Allah has granted him honour, out of the all .

If it is said that Islam exonerates whatever is past before it, we never object, but there is a great difference between that who was a polytheist and repented afterwards, and that who used to be immaculate and pure, knowing none but Allah. Extracted from the book titled “To be with the Truthful” by Muhammad-Tijani Sammawi Leave a Comment Leave a Comment Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.

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