Verily...

Verily, in each generation, there are some decent people belonging to us, the (‘a), who cleanse this religion from the distortions of the exaggerators, the forgery of the misguided, and the interpretation of the ignorant ones. [^3] The previously mentioned natural sequence (i.e.

With it, the prophets who submitted themselves to Allah judged matters for those who were Jews, masters of divine knowledge and doctors, because they were required to guard part of the Book of Allah, and they were witnesses thereof; therefore, fear not the people and fear Me, and do not take a small price for My communications. And whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed, those are the unbelievers.

Among the matters by which one is deservingly designated for Imamate are purification and purity from sins and destructive acts of disobedience (to Almighty Allah)—which have an inevitable punishment in Hellfire—and acquaintance with unseen knowledge of everything the position (of Imamate) requires, such as, the lawful and unlawful and full awareness of specific and general matters of law, including knowledge of decisive and allegorical issues, the minutest details of the law, the most precise points of interpretation and currently valid and abrogated matters.