Nonetheless...

Nonetheless, the guardianships is binding & obligatory while he is healthy or ill or whether he is rich & wealthy or possessing no wealth.

[^2] 2- بُنِيَ الإسلامُ عَلی خَمسٍ:إِقامِ الصَّلاةِ،وَايتاءِالزَّکاةِ وَحَجِّ البَيتِ وَصَومِ شَهرِ الرَمَضانَ، وَالوِلايَةِ لَنا أَهلِ البَيتِ، فَجُعِلَ في أَربَعٍَ مِنها رُخصَةٌ، وَلَم يُجعَل فِي الوِلايَةِ رُخصَةٌ،مَن لَم يَکُن لَهُ مالٌ لَم تَکُن عَلَيهِ الزَّکاةُ، وَ مَن لَم يَکُن لَهُ مالٌ فَلَيسَ عَلَيهِ حَجٌّ، وَمَن کانَ مَريضاً صَلّی قاعِداً، وَأفطَرَ شَهرَ رَمَضانَ وَالوِلايَةُ صَحيحاً کانَ أَو مَريضاً أَو ذامالٍ أَلامالَ لَهُ فِهَيَ لا زَمَةٌ.

(وسائل الشيعه ج1 ص14) Allah revealed to Shuaib (as) I will chastise one hundred thousand persons out of your community, forty thousand of their evil & wicked ones & sixty thousands from the pious ones among them.' So he said 'Oh lord, these (forty thousands) are the evil ones so what for these pious (are to be tormented')?

Thus Allah (SWT) revealed to him saying, 'for the reason that those pious ones coaxed & blandished the people of sin during their social inter courses they showed adaptability & sociability to the sinners And did not become angry with them for the sake of My anger & displeasure i.e.

(they did not perform the duty of ordering the good deeds & forbidding the evils doings.) [^3] 3- أَوحَی اللهُ إلی شُعَيبَ إِنّي مُعَذِّبٌ مِن قُومِکَ مِئَةَ أَلفٍ:أَربَعينَ أَلفاً مِن شِرارِهِم وَستَّينَ أَلفاً مِن خِيارِهِم،فَقالَ: يارَبَّ هؤلاءِ الأَشرارُ فَما بالُ الأَخبارِ؟فَأَوحَی اللهُ عَزَّوَجَلَّ إِلَيهِ:داهَنُوا أَهلَ المَعاصِي فَلَم يَغضَبُوا لِغَضَبي.

(مشکوة الانوار ص51) 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).

Moreover, 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 recognize 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.

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