Imamate (Divinely Appointed Leadership) is a very high position, and it is only Allah who can decide who is qualified for it. And if the Prophet Muhammad (S) announced to the people that the Twelve Imams are the leaders, or that the Ahlul Bayt are the people that we must refer to, or in that Imam Ali is his successor, it was only because he was asked...
The religion which can fulfill the needs of mankind must have the following qualities...
love for a person of perfect virtue is itself a ladder leading one up to perfection; ...
My God forgive me what I had promised to myself but Thou didst not find its fulfilmen...
Whoever desires (Al-Izzah) honor, power and glory in this world and the next, let him...