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...
love for a person of perfect virtue is itself a ladder leading one up to perfection; ...
O God, he whom Thou befriendest will not be injured by the abandonment of the abandon...
O God, if Thou shouldst turn Thy generous face away from me, withhold from me Thy imm...
There are numerous proofs which confirm the infallibility {ismah} of the Imams who ar...