Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The one chosen for the Imamate must be among the people of religion and goodness ]
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For this reason, the people of religion and goodness and those who are concerned with God should be chosen for the imamate, even if they are little in knowledge, they are more deserving of the imamate than the heedless scholars, because what is meant by the praying person is to be present with God, so he does not need the knowledge of the praying person in terms of what he is praying except to know that he is in the hands of his Lord, communing with Him with what May God make it easy for him to recite His Book and nothing else, so he does not care about what he lacks in knowledge when he prays. Even if the praying person brings in his prayer allegiance and issues of divorce and marriage, there is no difference between him and the one who is heedless of his prayer, but rather he is with God in terms of what is before him in a special act of worship. He invited him to it, making forbidden to him inwardly what was forbidden to him outwardly. Just as he should not turn his face in a w