This is the clearest evidence of the Shia’s belief in imamate.
This is the clearest evidence of the Shia’s belief in imamate. Infallibility There is another very important quality that the Shia believe inherent to their imams. It is the infallibility of the imams and their immunity from entering into any field of sin and unlawfulness. This is a clear fact with no room for doubt. He who ponders over the lives of the pure imams will find this fact very clear.
Imam Ali (a.s) has said, “By Allah, if I were to be given the seven regions with all that is under their spheres just to disobey Allah by depriving an ant of a husk of a barley grain, I would not do so.” Is infallibility other than this?! If Imam Husayn (a.s) had made peace with the Umayyads and submitted to their policies, he would not have faced the…