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Second: By the consecutive appointment of the Imams We made the word, that is, the statement of Truth and the propagation of the truthful commands and the clear code for the people. Third: this may be a hint towards the verse wherein Almighty Allah, at the time of determining to create Adam (a.s.), said to the angels: إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً. I am going to place in the earth a khalif.

(Sura Baqara 2:30) That is, this promise of making a caliph in the earth is not exclusively for the time of Adam (a.s.), rather it will continue till Qiyamat and that there…