The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, testified to some women’s perfection, just as he testified to some men, even if they were more perfect than women, which is prophecy, and prophecy is an imamate, so the imamate of a woman is valid, and the principle is that her imamate is permissible. So whoever claims to prevent that without evidence, he will not be heard and there is no text. For the one who prevents that and his argument for preventing that, he enters it with him and associates himself with it, so the argument is dropped, so the principle remains by permitting her to lead it. Know that the human being is a scholar within himself who is great in terms of meaning, even if he is small in size. That is why he says, “Beware of us, we worship the plural nouns” and made his limbs and powers, both apparent and hidden, submissive to what those who preceded them judge about them, which is the mind. And the soul and the desire, and each one of them may lea