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The Meccan Revelations

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[ There must be an imam in every kind ]

In our case, there may not be equality, and he combines for one person all that the group has, so he prefers the group by summing up what some of them have over others, not by something additional, for he is better than every single person, and he does not give preference, so he is the master of the group by this total, so he is not unique in his virtue in a matter that is not among the individuals of the kind. This is how it is. In the same matter, in every kind, there must be an imam in every kind, from a messenger, a prophet, a saint, a believer, a human being, an animal, a plant, a mineral, and an angel, and we have warned of that before in the choices .