(وسائل الشيعه ج1 ص91) 5- وَاعلَم بِأَنَّکَ لا تَکُونُ لَنا...
(اصول الکافی ج2 ص23) The obedience of Imam following His recognition is the loftiest apex &. peak &. the most worthy of stations &. the key to the religion, &. gate way &. door to the affairs &. pleasure of the merciful (Allah). More over, if a man keeps standing whole night for prayers &. keeps on fasting during the day &. gives out all his wealth as alms &. perform Hajj all the years of his life and does not recognise the guardianship of the saint of Allah so as to love him &.
perform all his practices under his guidance &. leadership, he does not have any right out of His rewards &. he is not from among the faithfuls. (WASAIL U SHIA. VOL 1. P 91) And do know that you will not become our friend until (such time) that if all the inhabitants of your city collectively form this opinon about you &. say 'Indeed you are a bad person'. This saying of them does not make you sorrowful &. if they say ',Indeed you are a pious man' this does not make you glad.
And but you compare yourself with the book of Allah. So if you are the traverser of it's way, pious in it's pieties (where everyou are demanded &. required to be pious), prone &. inclined towards its persuation, afraid of it's Intimidation &. threatenings, so remain firm. And glad tidding for you because what they (people) say about you shall not harm you. (TUHf1JL AQOOL.
P 284) Suleman bin khalid narrates Abi Jaffar Imam Mohammed Baqir said " May I not inform you about the Islam's principle, it's derivative &. it's summit, apex &. hump?' I said 'yes why not, I may lay my life for you.' He said " However, it's principle is service &. it's derivative is aIm giving &.