Finally he should have selected one or two from them (as the...

Finally he should have selected one or two from them (as the Sunni scholars hold); then he should have made plain the characteristics of an Imam so that the people know whom they should choose. It seems that all these things we have to seek in his silence, and his silence is the proof; whoever doubts it, fully or partly, deserves Divine's dudgeon, and will be no more a Muslim but a Kafir?!?! I can not believe in such a thing unless I lose the grip of reason.

5- Difference in my nation is a mercy In my preceding discussion the strokes of my pen might have created a raucous din shouting religious slogans while I connived the plan I had charted to myself; this is what I fear. Hasty steps might raise dust; I shall slow down my paces to ensure that. It has been narrated that the Prophet said: "Difference in my nation is a mercy." The word6 is not interpreted condign to the Islamic moral.

What a pity 6- The word 'EKHTELAF' is narrated by Shia and Sunni sources. It is also interpreted by the Prophet's household members.

A narration goes in ELALAL-SHARAYE like this: Imam Jafer Bin Mohammed al-Sadiq qas asked: "People narrate that the Prophet had said; 'Difference of my nation is a mercy." The Imam replied: "They have told the truth." Then a remark was made to the Imam: "If their difference could be a mercy, their to have invented such a lie upon one who strive for the unity and campaigned with the word of brotherhood against the adhibition of pre-Islamic era; lifted the Arabs from a deep pit of division and difference.

The greatest phenomenon of Islam, rather its greatest achievement, is its invitation to an absolute unity in its widest sense that annihilates the rifts between individuals, groups and nations under the banner "Indeed, the faithful are brothers." We do not discern any proof more perspicuous than the very practice towards attaining the unity among the believers to an extent to make them like a structure cemented and compact in which every brick is a base to another and each column a support to a ceiling and each ceiling a floor to another.

And such an edifice is displayed in the avenues of religious practices such as Friday prayers, mass prayers, 'Haj' (pilgrimage); and every thing deleterious, no matter however trifle, is prohibited such as back biting, carping, caviling, calumniating, winking and so forth. Such being the fact, how can a claim be laid that he invited the difference or endeavored towards it? This is a facinorous accusation.