Through all of this...
Through all of this, one will cease activity in the state of anticipation and recitation of supplications for the Imam or one may give up performing the responsibilities which one must fulfill towards the Imam. Such a person may also go towards those actions which the faith of Islam is not pleased with!
Thus, the physical and mental state, words and deeds of a true believer must be exactly that which Imam al-Hujjah (ajtf) himself has stated: وَ أَنْتَ الْعَالِمُ غَيْرُ مُعَلَّمٍ بِالْوَقْتِ الَّذِي فِيهِ صَلاَحُ أَمْرِ وَلِيِّكَ فِي الإِذْنِ لَهُ بِإِظْهَارِ أَمْرِهِ وَ كَشْفِ سِرِّهِ فَصَبِّرْنِي عَلَـى ذٌلِكَ حَـتـى لاَ أُحِبَّ تَعْجِيلَ مَا أَخَّرْتَ وَ لاَ تَأْخِـيرَ مَا عَجَّلْتَ “And You O’ Allah are the All-Knowing, without the aid of a teacher, about the time which is best for your close servant to get the permission to make his advent and to reveal his secret!
So grant me patience in this issue so that I do not wish to make haste in what you have decided to delay and that I do not wish there to be delay in what you have decided to hasten...”[^2] [^1]: al-Ghaybah of Nu’mani, pg. 197, sec. ‘That which the Shi’a have been Commanded to Follow,’ no. 8 [^2]: Kamal ad-Din wa Tamam an-Ni’mah, pg. 512 Previous…
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