This is the same pollution from the stench which the evil ‘alim ...

This is the same pollution from the stench which the evil ‘alim , the ‘alim without action, the perverted ‘alim has brought in this world, and the smell of it causes the people of hell to suffer. It is not because something is added to him there, that which occurs to this ‘alim in the next world is something which has been prepared in this world. Nothing is given to us except that which we have done.

If an ‘alim is corrupt and evil, he corrupts the society, although in this world we are not able to smell the stench of it. However, in the next world stench of it will be perceived. But a vulgar person is not able to bring such corruption and pollution into the Islamic society. A vulgar person would never allow himself to proclaim that he was an Imam or the Mahdi, to proclaim himself a prophet, or to have received revelation. It is a corrupt ‘alim who corrupt the worlds: “if an ‘alim is…