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...
This sermon is known as the Sermon of Skeletons1 (Khutbatu'l-Ashbah) and it holds one...
His Supplication when Hostility was Shown to Him or when he Saw what he did not Like ...
I stand witness that there is no god except Allah, He is One and there is no partner ...
One day a man came to the Imam (A) and begged him to give him according to the extent...