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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Imam Al-sadiq Them Imamate Muslims have unanimously agreed on the necessity of the Imamate. But they have different beliefs about it, because the Imam leads the Muslim community, guards it against misguidance, enforces the Islamic law, and spreads the teachings of Islam.

A part of the policy of the Owner of the religious law and the marvelous things of his rule is that he ordered (Muslims) to know the Imam, so he said:” Whoever dies and does not know the Imam of his time dies for jâhiliya (pre Islamic paganism age).”[1] Namely, he dies as if he did not adopt Islam.

If the Muslims act according to this religious duty and carry out what this obligation ordains, to know the Imam and listen to his words after they have known him, they will be one army and their leader is the Imam. Then no Muslim ignores the commandments of the religion or he knows them but he does not act according to them. Moreover, the flags of Islam will wage all over the world.

The caliphate and Imamate was a race course, no one takes its reins but the person who wins the race even if with blood shed and violating the forbidden, rather even if the caliph himse!f, after taking the reins of authority, is impudent and dissolute paying no attention to what he does. But the Imâmi Shia, since the first era, have not attached importance to such an Imamate and not acknowledged such an Imamate.

Rather they think that the caliph or the Imam should have all the qualities of perfection, free from all the traits of defect, carrying out the commandments of the Islamic Law secretly and openly, refraining from the outside and the inside forbidden things, and prevent people from doing them.

He should be appointed according to the textual nomination by the Owner of the Islamic Law or by the Imam before him, to carry out the order of Allah, the Glorified because He, the Exalted, is more than his servants in choosing the most righteous person for this sensitive position.

The ‘main is not he who leads people, rather the main is the person whom the evidences support, even if people do not follow him or prevent him from carrying out the obligations of his Imamate and the duties of his leadership. The resistance and apposition of people against the main does not decrease his ability to assume the obligations of the Imainate, rather they miss their chance and lose a way of guidance. 1 In this manner the tradition has been mentioned in the origin of the book.