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...
Forty Traditions from Imam Ali (as)
...Imam al-‘Askari pointed at one of the monks and ordered the soldiers to take whate...
am the son of the one who defended the Muslims, killed the oath breakers of allegian...
In connection with the greater sins, reference to which has been made in several vers...