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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Leading The Ummah Chapter 3: The Reasons For The Validity Of Shiite’s View The rational and narrative reasons all lead us to the fact that the Imam's position, like the one of the Prophet: • is a divine position; • the Imam should be appointed by God; and • he should have all the conditions and characteristics of the Prophet except for the ability to receive revelations.

Now let us present our reasons: The New Problems During his lifetime the beloved Prophet of Islam put forward the basic and practical principles of Islam which consequently led to the completion of the sacred religion of Islam. But are these principles enough without an Islamic authority who has the ability to solve people's problems? Definitely not.

Rather, there should have been an infallible Imam, after the Prophet, who could in the light of the Holy Quran, deal with new situations, especially those situations which did not arise during the Prophet’s lifetime.

After his prophethood, the Prophet spent thirteen years in Mecca struggling with idolatry, during which, due to the lack of proper conditions, he was unable to teach people the Divine rulings; therefore he spent most of his energy trying to inform people of the Islamic principles and the issues related to the Creator and resurrection. Since the issues of ‘Islamically permitted and forbidden acts’ could not be raised at the time, they were postponed to a later date.

Upon his entry into Medina, the Prophet was faced with insurmountable obstacles. His life in Medina did not exceed ten years but during this time he personally took part in twenty seven Holy Wars against the idolaters and the Jews of Medina and Kheybar. His precious time was also spent on fighting with the infidels and hypocrites. All the events caused the Prophet to present only an introduction of the Islamic principles.

Who could satisfy all the needs of the Ummah based on these principles after the Prophet?