\n \u2018 O Ali bin Mohammed Samari...

\n \u2018 O Ali bin Mohammed Samari, Allah -azwj may give His best reward to your grieving brothers on your death, which will occur within next six days.\u00a0 Thus, you better start packing up and do not nominate your deputy while making your last will.\u00a0 Now the major occultation will take place and Allah -azwj will not make me reappear until after a long time.\u00a0 This will not happen until people with stone cold hearts will come and fill the earth with cruelty and tyranny.\u00a0 And few among my Shias, will make claims of meeting with me but, whoever claims to see me before the aggression of Safani, he will be a big liar and filthy accuser.

\n First, we can easily see that there were deputy of representatives of Imam -asws (four in total) and second, there will be no deputy of any kind until the re-appearance of Imam-e-Zaman -asws .

[37] \n So all these \u2018Niab-e-Imam\u2019 and even so-called \u2018Imam\u2019 are self-selected pretentious titles, without any real meanings and any relevance to and or endorsement of Imam-e-Zaman -asws .\u00a0 During the early days of \u2018major Occultation\u2019, Imam-e-Zaman -asws \u2019s loyal scholar were quite content with their humble status and titles, i.e., (Mulla Mohammed Baqir Majlasi, Sheikh Yaqub Kulani, Sheikh Sadduq, Syed Murtaza).

Any mujtahid, preset or past, can never ever dare to equate himself with the devout services and breadth of knowledge of above mentioned shia scholars. \n Final Word – the Solution! \n Having said all this, reader may ask what is the solution? How one can find the authentic traditions of Masomeen -asws relevant to our day-to-day issues?

\n All the required knowledge, until the Day of Judgement, has been transferred to us by the Masomeen -asws , any argument creating an element of doubt (i.e., our books were burnt in Baghdad) [38] would be against our basic belief that Masomeen -asws did not leave behind adequate \u2018guideline lines\u2019 (traditions) which would be followed by their Shia during the time of major occultation of Imam-e-Zaman -asws , or all or part of those traditions were lost (Nouzobillah!).\u00a0 Unless we vigorously deny these myths, we are along the lines of Sunnis, who are convinced that Prophet Mohammed -saw did not leave behind his vicegerent who would lead his followers after him [39] .