It is thus incumbent upon ethical agents to develop themselves personally, i.

It is thus incumbent upon ethical agents to develop themselves personally, i.e., to grow intellectually and morally, to care for the body and for one's progeny, to seek the welfare of others, and the peace of the world, always guided by love.[^17] Although eschatological agency is guided by divine love always for each and every creature, the narrative descriptions of this aspect of revelation - upon which M/M doctrines are based - are consistently cosmological and global.

This fact should aid the necessary philosophical distinction between the two, however, so that ethical agency is never confused with eschatological agency. [^1] Some key texts: Meir M. Bar-Asher. Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism (1999, Brill; with its extensive review of early exegetes, e.g., Furat ibn Furat ibn Ibrahim al-Kufi, Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi, Abu-'l Nadr Muhammad ibn Mas'ud al`Ayyashi & Muhammad ibn Ibrahim…