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 knowledge and character par excellence of the Imam attracted people of all kinds ...
Twenty Discourses from Imam Mahdi (as)
Praise belongs to God, who created night and day through His strength, set them apart...
...When the verse “Do not call the Prophet like the way you call one another”(24:63) ...