salaam Ahmed,
You have asked me a proper question in an appropriate way so its wajib on me to answer.
Quran says" And when the Lord tried Ibrahim (P) by words which he fulfilled, He said verily I am to make you Imam (leader) over men; Ibrahim (P) implored if also he will be from his progney? ALlah replied (yes,but) His covenant embraces and reaches no wrong-doer’s."
(2:124)
Imamat having functions or duties similar to “Nabuwwat” can never reach to a tyrant or a sinner but to the pure and taintless, surpassing merits through All selection.
Ahmed as you can see in the verse above that Allah has agreed upon passing the Mansab-e-Imammat through Hazrat Ibrahim’s progney (ahl-e-Bayt a.s.). The verse above mentions clearly that Imamt can not be given to zalimeen and quran says one who commits a sin is a zalim (since s/he has done zulm on himself/herself).
Now Ahlebayt (as) i.e. kins of prophet, were attested by Allah to be pure and innocent as a leader ought to be.
Quran says: “O Ahlebayt, Allah only desires to take away from you all abominations of sins and to keep you as purified and taintless as it should be”.
(33:33)
Now such kins and ahlebayt who were pure and spotless were made known by the Holy Prophet (pbuh) as well when he brought them forth in obidience to Allah’s commands when contesting truth and sancticity of Islam with the learned deputation of christians of Najran.
Quran says" And he who disputed with you concerning him (i.e. Jesus, after the truth (knowledge i.e. Quran) has come to you, say to him, come, let us call together our sons and your sons, and our women and your women and those like our souls and - yours like that; Then let us imprecate and invoke Allah to inflicit His curse upon the liars".
(3, 61)
Dear Ahmed, all muslims agree, all 73 sects admit, the prophet cameout with Hazrat Imam Hussein in his arams and Hazrat Imam Hasan at his side- as sons, Hazrat Bibi fatima behind him (representing women) and Hazrat Imam Ali in the rear personifying prophet’s life and soul.
The christians delegates however couldn’t stand the test, their leader said “I am seeing some very noble faces, shall these people curse us, all os us will be vanished”. Its amazing how christians can see and acknowledge the noble faces while today some muslims compare themselves with Prohpet Muhammad and say “He is no better them them”. Anyways, thats entirely diff. topic.
Imamt is vicegerency of prophet (pbuh).
The holy quran says" And make for me a vizier for my people Aaron my brother".
(20,29-30)
The request was granted.
Quran further says" And surely we have already given Moses the book, and made with him his brother Aarom his vizier". (25:35)
From above it is apparent that even prophets were not free to appoint their successors without the approval of Allah. From Adam (as) to jesus, the system appears unchanged and succesor to any prophet was never appointed by people. Bani Israel, of course, selected SAMRI as their leader instead of Aaron, and the result was that they were led to cow-worshiping.
Quran further says: O those who belive: Obey Allah, and obey the prophet and those wcharged with authority (from Allah) amongst you".
(4:59)
Ahmed, the above verse shows that the Ulul-Amr" i.e. those in authority from Allah, are entitled alone to be obeyed implicitly in everything they do or say like the prophet himself and consequently must be as good, God-fearing and chosen by ALlah as the prophet, whom they represent. He must be infallible, pure and sueprior in merits to all as stated above. It ought to be clearly borne in mind that “The Authority” is neither sysonymous nor necessarily identical with the “ruler”.
Ahmed, I can prove alot through hadiths, even from sahihs but abhee quran say aaur clear ho jae ga topic.
In a verse which is acceptedly about Hazrat Ali (as) ALlah says:
“Your patron is only Allah and his prophet and those who believe, who are steadfast in prayers and give alms while they are kneeling in prayers”. (5:55)
Allah, his prophet (pbuh), Hazrat ALi (as) together with the Imams (as) from the descendants of the holy prophet (pbuh), love and fiedlity to whom was ordained and declared Allah as the only recompense for the Prophet’s arduous mission.
Dear Ahmed, you must have heared/read about dawat-e-zul-ashira. Hazoor said: " I do not know any man in Arabis who can make you a better present then i now bring you; i offer you the good both of this world and the life after" Great ALlah has commanded me to call you to him. Who then will be my vizier, my brother, my deputy". When all were silent hazrat Ali said: I will, I will beat out the teeth, put out the eyes, rip up the bellies and break the legs of all that oppose you. I wil be your vizier over them". "Then the apostile of god embracing Hazrat Ali (as) said.“this is my brother, my ambassador, my deputy, pay him obidience”. Upson which abu lahab said to Hazrat Aby Talib (hazrat Ali’s father) “Oh abul talib! look Muhammed is telling you obey your own son”.
ref:
*Al Murtuza; page 9 - hafiz Abdul rahman.
*Maulim-ut-Tanzil
*abu Fida, Nasayi< allam ibn Ashar and many other sunni divines have described the above incident i am quoting.
Ahmad it was no-one but Hazrat Ali (as) who stood beside Hazoor all the way.
Quran says:“And when you are free of the duties entrusted you, appoint and declare (your succesor,as promised) and strive to make yourself ready to retire to your lord”.
(94,7-8)
O prophet, proclaim what has been sent down to you from allah; and if you do not do what has been revealed, you have not proclaimed allah’s message at all. And allah will defent thee against men".
(5:67)
And then AHmed you must have read what happened at Hujjat-ul-Widda (ghadeer-e-Khum). AFter performing the last pilgrimage to Makka the Prophet made formal declaration of his suscessor. He broke the journey and stopped at Ghadeer Khum and muslims were summoned by calling (haeya allah kahirul amal) ‘To hurry and attend the best of deeds’. (this is all in shia/sunni history)
When all has assembled, hazoor went upon the pulpit raised by piling up sadles and delivering sermon demanded how they believed and held him at heart. They replied that he was deare to them than their own souls that he was their “Wali” or Master.
The prophet then raised Hazrat Ali on his hands and proclaimed:
“mun kuntomaula, fahaza ali maula
Allahum-o-al-min-wallah o aad min aadah”
“This Ali is Maula of all those who believe me as thei Maula. Oh ALlah! show thy loveing mercy to those who love him and trest his foes as thine enmies”.
Congratulations were offered band fidelity vowed by the muslims.
It was after the above appointment of hazrat ali that the prophet was assured by allah to have fulfilled his mission
“Today we have perfected for you your religion, and have fulfilled my favour and blessings upon you, and i am pleased for you to have islam as religion”.
(5:4)
At the end let me paste something related to this from an old post of mine:
"**A Jewish team along with an aalim came to Hazrat Ali (as), asking some questions.
Hazrat Ali (as): How many sects are there amongst you?
Raas-ul-Yahood: this and this much
Hazrat Ali (as): No, you are not correct!
(addressing to everyone)
Listen oh yahood! I swear by Allah! I could show you haaq (truth)from Taurayt for you ahl-e-taurayt, I can show the right way from Injeel (bible)to ahl-e-Injeel and i can show haaq to ahl-e-quran from quran.
(then continued)
Ummat-e-Yahood had 71 sects amongst them, of which 70 belong to jahannum and the only one to survive would be the one which obeyed MUSA’s (as) waris Yosheh (as).
Nissara (christians) were distributed in 72 sects of which only one sect is Naaji (right), and thats the one which obeyed the waris of Essa (hazrat Shummaon (as))
Now the muslims ummat will have 73 sects amongst them of which only one sect will get nijjat and that will be the one recognizing Muhammad’s (pbuh) wussi (waris).
(then hits his chest and says)
out of 73 sects, 13 will recognize me and will love me, of which one will be Naaji (right), following me as i deserve, rest 12 will go to jahannum".**
ref: *Bahar-ul Muyarif, Pg 105
*Ahtijaaj Tubsiri, Pg, 311
*Nahaj-ul-Asrar, mun kalaam Haider-e- Karrar (as), Edition II, Tafsser by Allma Zeeshan hayder Jawwadi, Pg 300.
I hope you read the whole thing Ahmed. There is not much cut n paste here, i had to type it all. .
Salaam
ramesha
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