We have believed in him and all Allahs apostles,His prophets,and His proofs.

We have believed in him and all Allahs apostles,His prophets,and His proofs.And we have believed in His truthful Book falsehood shall not come to it from before it nor from behind it; a revelation from the Wise, the Praised one , that it is His Book which has dominated all the Books,and that it is true from beginning to end.

We have believed in its clearly defined and its ambiguous,its specific and its general,its promise and its threat, its abrogating (verses) and its abrogated, and its giving information. No creature is able to bring the like of it.

After it the proof and argument is the Commander of the faithful, who undertakes the affairs of the Muslims, speaks on behalf of the Qurān, and knows its precepts, who is his (the Prophets) brother, his successor, his testamentary trustee, whose position to him was as Hārūn had with Mūsā, Ali b.

Abū Tālib, the Commander of the faithful, the Imām of the Allah-fearing, the leader of the luminous famous ones, the master of the faithful, the best of the testamentary trustees after the prophets; after him were al-Hasan and al-Husayn, peace be on them, one by one up to this day of ours, who are the family of the Messenger; the most learned of them (men) in the Book and the Sunna (the Prophets practices), the most just of them in the case, the most appropriate of them for the Imāmate in every age and time; they are the firmest handle, the Imāms of guidance, the proof over the inhabitants of the world until Allah inherits the earth and that which on it, and He is the best of the inheritors; all those who have opposed them are straying and misleading and leaving the truth and guidance; it is they who express the Qurān and speaks on behalf of the Messenger with eloquence.

He who dies and does not know their names and their fathers names dies as those who died before Islam.

Surely of their religion are piety, chastity, truthfulness, righteousness, diligence, returning the things deposited (with them to) to the pious and the sinners, prostrating themselves in prayers for a long time, refraining from the unlawful, waiting for relief by the virtue of steadfastness, good friendship, good neighborhood, offering the good, praying by night, turning away from harm, cheerfulness, advice, and having mercy on the believers.