One who follows the religion of Allah -azwj under the...

One who follows the religion of Allah -azwj under the guardianship of an Imam -asws who is just in his dealings and possesses Divine Authority, will suffer no negative effect.’ ‘I then asked: ‘Do those, in fact, have no religion, and these face no destruction?’ The Imam -asws said: ‘That is correct.

Those have no religion and these face no destruction.’ Then, the Imam -asws said: ‘Have you not heard the words of Allah -azwj : ‘Allah is the Guardian of the believers and it is He who takes them out of darkness into light. … ‘ (2:257) . It means that He -azwj Takes them out of the darkness of sins to the light of repentance and forgiveness because of their love for us -asws and their being under the guardianship of the just ‘A’immah -asws (plural of Imam) who possess Divine Authority.

He has also said: ‘ The Devil is the guardian of those who deny the Truth and he leads them from light to darkness …. ‘ (2:257) . It means that they were in the light of Islam but when they accepted the guardianship and the leadership of every unjust imam who possessed no authority from Allah -azwj their guardianship took them out of the ‘Noor’ of Islam to the darkness of disbelief.

Allah -azwj then Made it necessary for them to suffer in Fire along with the unbelievers, ‘ … these are the dwellers of hell wherein they will live forever (2:257) ’. [36] [1] Al-Kafi, Vol. 8, H. 14886 [2] ( 2) تفسير القمّيّ ج 1 ص 84 باختلاف يسير. [3] مرآة العقول في شرح أخبار آل الرسول، ج‏26، ص: 315, H. 438 [4] مستدرك الوسائل و مستنبط المسائل، ج‏2، ص: 157, H.