Allah, the Mighty and Sublime says: آمَنَ الرَّسُولُ بِمَا...

Allah, the Mighty and Sublime says: آمَنَ الرَّسُولُ بِمَا أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ رَبِّهِ وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ ۚ كُلٌّ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَمَلَائِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ “The apostle believes in what has been revealed to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers; they all believe in Allah and His angels and His books and His apostles.” (Qur’an, Surah Baqarah 2:285) It is from this aspect that in the report of Abdul Aziz bin Muslim from His Eminence, Imam Ali Reza (as) it is mentioned that he said: “Imam is a kind friend.” Without any doubt this position will not be obtained only by being companions of Prophet or Imams, rather it requires a perfect and complete faith, such that if this matter is realized nothing else would make any difference whether one brother meets another or not, just as the relationship of brotherhood between two brothers is not broken by separation of time and place and if this condition is not there for anyone, his being a companion and contemporary of the Prophet or the Imam would not be of any use to him and to relate it to a brotherhood of faith is not correct.

From the above discussion, it becomes clear that the proofs on which Sunnis rely to prove their superiority are weak as it is mentioned in the Holy Qur’an: ثَانِيَ اثْنَيْنِ إِذْ هُمَا فِي الْغَارِ إِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ لَا تَحْزَنْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَنَا “He being the second of the two, when they were both in the cave, when he said to his companion: Grieve not, surely Allah is with us.” (Qur’an, Surah Taubah 9:40) They have argued about his excellence on the basis of this same companionship of the Holy Prophet (S).