And the meaning of the blessed Salawaat is...

And the meaning of the blessed Salawaat is: innumerable worldly benefits and effects, and purifying: devoid of divine anger and displeasure and it is that which causes increase and multiplication of effects and consequences of the hereafter. And the meaning of gathering their affairs on piety is: that all their actions will be according to piety and devoid of carnality and sensuality and no action which is against the command of Allah would be committed by them.

And there is a possibility that it implies their unity and gathering on the word of piety, but the first possibility is stronger. And arranging of their position: that is reforming their worldly affairs. Secondly: Explanation of the ten above-mentioned qualities based on the sayings of the Purified Progeny of the Holy Prophet (S). Thus we say: First quality: Belief in positions that the Almighty Allah has made special for the Purified Imams (as).

These beliefs may be in brief or in detail and this is indicated by the words: so that they may accept their positions. Second quality: Following them in their beliefs and being steadfast in things they are steadfast in. And this is the implication of the words: Following their path. Third quality: Imitating them in their manners and actions that are performed by them, in all the aspects of life as the Imam has mentioned about it by the words: ‘pursue their track’.

Fourth quality: It is that they should remain attached to that with which the Imams are attached. And this could be achieved by acting according to their commands and prohibitions. And this is the implication of the words: ‘adhere strongly to them’. Fifth quality: To remain firm upon their Wilayat in all important matters. Imam Ali Ibne Husain (as) has alluded to this by saying: ‘are firmly attached to their friendship’.

Sixth quality: It is that they must consider only them as their Imams and they must not consider anyone else as Imams: like the Zaidiyyah and their followers. Seventh quality: Submission to their commands.

It is mentioned in Usool Kafi through authentic chains of narrators from Abdullah Kahili that he said: His Eminence, Abu Abdillah Sadiq (as) said: “If people worship the One God without any partners, establish Prayer, pay Zakat , perform the Hajj of Allah’s House and fast during the month of Ramadan, then they say about something that the Almighty Allah of the Messenger of Allah (S) has done that: Why did he not do the opposite of it?