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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Fatima is Fatima Who Is Responsible? Scholars! It is they who do not perform their respon­sibilities in respect to the people. They should give aware­ness, consciousness and direction to the people and they do not do so. All our geniuses and great talents occupy themselves with philosophy, theology, Sufism, jurisprudence, princi­ples, literature, meanings, expression, novelties, conjuga­tion and syntax.

Through all the years of research, thought and their own scholarly anguish, they write nothing other than `practical treatises' on how to achieve cleanliness for the ritual prayer, types of uncleanliness, the rules of men­struation, and the doubts which arise in ritual prayer.

They leave aside writing treatises on how to speak with people, treatises on how to communicate the religious truths and the philosophy of the pillars of the religion, treatises on how to communicate consciousness and aware­ness to people, treatises on the understanding of the tra­ditions of the Prophet and the personalities of the Imams, treatises on the revolutionary purpose behind Karbala, introductory treatises on the family of the Prophet and the Shiite movement, treatises on the expression of thou­ghts and treatises on the faith of the people.

All of these treatises are written, but all of them are written without responsibility, without the role of a commander. They pass their responsibilities on to the ordinary speakers in the mosques, not to the mujtahids (religious leaders whose directions for the practice of the faith are fol­lowed). This is why the task of introducing the Prophet's family, the task of the advertisement of religion and the study of the truths of Islam fall prone to the `failures of the old schools of religion'.

It is for this reason that a group of young people, in order to study Islamic sciences (and to carry jurisprudence forward), enter the schools. If talented, through great efforts, they become jurispru­dents or mujtahids or faghih [theologians]. This group is imprisoned as teachers and removed from the com­munity.

Those who do not succeed in studying properly, because they do not have the ability, talent or spiritual strength, but, in exchange, have warm, often artistic, voices, are obliged to propagate and advertise the truths of the religion. The third group, who have neither this nor that; neither the science nor at least a voice, take the third way. They become dumb and speechless.