Islam, Politics and Rule

The tyrants who are ruling the Islamic countries today are trying to spread an idea among the common Muslims which is the the separation of religion and state, for which they raise a slogan (The religion is for the religion, and the state is for the state), and those ignorant ones did not innovate this idea, rather they brought it from the materialistic West . And this materialistic idea would have never been spread in the West among the Christians and Jews if the Gospel and the Torah had not been altered, and if the monks and the priests had not been flocking towards this world and the authorities at that time . And this is a fallacy that no Muslim who is acquainted with the Islamic religion even generally would fall for, as the Islamic religion spoke of every minor and major issue in the life of the people, it also spoke of the acts of worship in their entirety so there is no economic or social issue that the Islamic jurisprudence did not convey, as well as the military matters, the cases of jihad, dealing with non-Muslims and also the covenants, contracts and reconciliation . And politics is none other than all these things combined . But tyrants are not satisfied with this, as politics for them is the tricks and the deception which they practice to take over the Islamic people . Their politics is against the people, whereas the politics which Allah wants is for the interest of the people, and whoever wants to deviate from the politics which Allah defines in Islam is deviating towards the darkness of the days of ignorance . The Almighty said, ﴾Then is it the ruling of the [days of] ignorance that they desire? But who is better than Allah in ruling for a people who have certitude?﴿^[1] The Almighty said, ﴾And whoever does not rule by what Allah has sent down, then those are the disbelievers .﴿^[2] The Almighty said, ﴾And whoever does not rule by what Allah has sent down, then those are the oppressors .﴿^[3] The Almighty said, ﴾And whoever does not rule by what Allah has sent down, then those are the defiantly disobedient .﴿^[4] Politics is strongly bonded to the rule and the ruler, as the policy of

the tyrant is trickery, deception, harming the people, besieging them culturally, intellectually, and economically and spreading corruption and oppression between the servants . As for the policy of the Prophet pbuhap or the infallible or whoever represents them, it is spreading mercy among the people and the worship of Allah, pushing people towards intellectualism and contemplation, spreading justice and fairness in the society, providing people with their livelihood and securing them economically . The goal of the tyrant is himself and his stay in power, and the goal of the Prophet pbuhap is the people, taking them out of the darkness and into the light, and spreading justice among them . And so if this is the case, is it sensible that Allah swt leaves the Muslims after the Messenger of Allah pbuhap without appointing infallible leaders for them, who preserve the religion and spread justice among the people?! How [is that so]? And He is the Wise, the Expert, who did not leave the small family without a leader, and stated in the Quran that men are the guardians of the women!! Is it sensible that Allah swt left the Islamic nation without a specified leader, for the matter to be in the hands of the enemies of Allah, for the likes of Yazeed bin Muawya to kill al-Hussain pbuh , transgress Madina and attack the House of Allah with catapults?!! Moreover, any person who owns a small ship with a group of workers, does he leave them without appointing a leader for the ship? And if he left them without a leader and the ship sank, do we not describe this person to be ignorant and unwise? Then how do we accept that Allah swt left His ship filled with His servants roaming the space without a leader?! A nuclear war between those servants today is enough to sink this ship and turn it into pieces scattered in space, so is it wise to leave the people of the ship without a divine law and jurisprudence, and without a just infallible leader who implements this law? Allah swt is far from that, the Just, the Wise, the King, the Holy One . And we as Muslims agree that the law and the jurisprudence in this age is the Islamic religion, the seal of the religions . And Allah swt appointed just, pure and infallible leaders to attend to the matters of this world and the religion with justice and fairness, but the tyrants

usurped their right and took over the wheel forcefully, and people failed the pure leaders and did not support them, so they lost their fortune and angered their Lord . And Muslims agreed that their number is twelve, as it was mentioned in the authentic and frequent narration from the Prophet pbuhap,^[5] and we say that the first of them is Ali pbuh and their seal is al-Mahdi pbuh . And the narration of the successors, ﴾the twelve who will come after me,”﴿is not fulfilled except by them . And each one of them claimed the Imamate and the religious and wordly leadership of the nation, and stated who would be the one to come after him; also the Prophet pbuhap stated all of them by [their] names . And the people of every age agreed that they [Ahlul Bayt pbut ] are the most perfect and most knowledgeable people of their time, and it was not reported by anyone that they sought knowledge from any of the people, rather their knowledge is divine by inspiration from Allah, and they are the progeny of Muhammad pbuhap, and they are from the progeny of Abraham pbuhap, whose Imamate was stated by the Quran, and hellfire was promised to whoever disobeys it . The Almighty said, ﴾54 Or do they envy people for what Allah has given them of His favor? But We had already given the family of Abraham the Scripture and the Wisdom and conferred upon them a great sovereignty . 55 And some among them believed in it, and some among them were averse to it . And sufficient is hell as a blaze .﴿^[6] And the Muslims have agreed upon the Imamate of their seal who is al-Mahdi pbuh , and that the one who is a disbeliever in him is like the one who is a disbeliever in the Messenger of Allah, and the narrations which mention him are in the hundreds . And unfortunately many who are Muslim by name will disbelieve in him at the time of his blessed appearance and they will stand with the Sufyani, the leader of misguidance, who claims Islam and to be defending Muslims . The Almighty said,

﴾Have you seen he who has taken as his god his own desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah? Then will you not be reminded?﴿^[9] Although they will know him by the signs and the miracles, they will misinterpret them in a way that they will make the land-swallowing of the army of the Sufyani seem like a natural occurrence, just as their predecessors made the death of the army of Abraha al-Habashy seem like an occurrence due to plague and not divine torment . And the proofs for the Imamate of the first of the Imams, who is Ali pbuh , are too many to be counted, one of them being the saying of the Prophet pbuhap, ﴾Ali pbuh is the most just among you”﴿,^[10] and ﴾Greet him by Prince of Believers”﴿,^[11]and ﴾You are the khalifa after me”﴿,^[12] and ﴾You are the guardian of every believing man and woman after me”﴿,^[13] and ﴾You are to me in the rank of Aaron to Moses pbuh ”﴿ .^[7]And Aaron, in his lifetime, was the successor of Moses . And he himself is the same as the Prophet himself in the Quran, in the verse of Mubahala .^[8] The Almighty said, ﴾Then whoever argues with you about it after [this] knowledge has come to you, say, “Come, let us call our sons and your sons, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves, then perform

mubahala and invoke the curse of Allah upon the liars [among us] .”﴿^[14] And the interpreters agreed that the Prophet pbuhap brought out Ali and Fatima, the two Hassans [al-Hassan and al-Hussain] . And Fatima pbuh is the women because she is the Lady of the women of the first and the last; Allah said regarding Abraham that he is a nation though he is just one person .^[15] And the two Hassans are the sons, and there is no disagreement about this . And Ali pbuh is the self of the Prophet pbuhap .^[16] As for claiming that what is meant by the self in the verse is the self of the Prophet pbuhap, then this is nothing but following a desire and making the words of Allah swt like useless chatter, and Allah swt is greatly above useless chatter, as there is no meaning for a person to call himself, while it is already present with him .

And the Almighty said, ﴾Your ally is none but Allah and His Messenger and those who have believed, those who establish prayer and give zakat while they are bowing .﴿^[17] And most of the interpreters agreed that this verse is about Ali pbuh , when he gave his ring in charity while he was bowing .^[18] And the plural form [those] is to include his eleven sons after him, so he pbuh and his eleven sons after him, who are the sons of the Prophet pbuhap from Fatima pbuh , are more worthy to handle the matters of the believers after the Messenger of Allah pbuhap, as their allegiance is derived from the allegiance of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap, whose allegiance is derived from the divine allegiance . And since this verse was associated with the allegiance of Allah, then there is no meaning which would define it other than the allegiance of sovereignty and handling and arranging the worldly and the religious matters, and the Almighty said, ﴾O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you .﴿^[19] Those in authority here are the twelve infallible Imams pbut after the Prophet pbuhap, and if it [those in authority] was anyone other

than them, then the command would have meant giving absolute obedience to one who disobeys or commits mistakes, and it is absolute obedience because it is associated with obedience to Allah swt . And this is not true that those in authority are other than the infallible Imams pbut ; because this means that Allah swt commands us to obey His enemies, and in the least, it means the command to disobey Allah, and Allah is the refuge from such . So it is clarified that the ones commanded to be obeyed after the Prophet pbuhap are Ali and his infallible sons pbut . And their infallibility from sins is mentioned in the Quran . The Almighty said, ﴾Verily Allah wishes to remove from you the impurity, O people of the household, and to purify you with extensive purification .﴿* And the Prophet pbuhap stated that they are Ali, Fatima and the two Hassans pbut , as mentioned in the interpretation by many interpreters .^[20] And the Prophet pbuhap said in the Farewell Pilgrimage in Ghadeer Khum during noontime, ﴾O people, am I not more worthy of you than yourselves?” They said: “Yes, O Prophet of Allah,” he said, “Whoever’s master I am, Ali is his master, O Allah support whoever supports him, be an enemy to whoever is his enemy, grant victory to whoever makes him victorious, fail whoever fails him and let the Truth turn with him wherever he turns .”﴿^[21] Surat al-Ahzab (The Coalition) 33:33 .

In this narration the Prophet pbuhap proved that the allegiance to him is the allegiance to Ali ibn Abi Talib pbuh [after him], and the Prophet pbuhap is more worthy of the believers than themselves, and this is a frequent narration from the Prophet pbuhap, with tens of sources from the books of the Muslims in which it is mentioned that the Prophet pbuhap asked the Muslims to pay allegiance to Ali ibn Abi Talib pbuh , after his sermon in the Farewell Pilgrimage in Ghadeer Khum, and Abu Bakr and Omar paid allegiance to him and greeted him by the title “Prince of Believers” .^[22] And we will be asked and they will be asked on the Day no money or sons benefit anyone except those who approach Allah with a sound heart . As for the Imams from the children of Ali, they were stated by the Prophet pbuhap as narrated from Jabir bin Abdullah al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him), when Allah swt said, ﴾O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you . And if you disagree over anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day . That is the best and the best in result .﴿^[23] Jabir said, “O Messenger of Allah we knew Allah, so we obeyed Him, and we knew you, so we obeyed you, so who are those in authority that Allah is commanding us to obey?” He pbuhap said, ﴾They are my successors O Jabir and those of authority after me, the first of them is my brother Ali pbuh , then after him his son al-Hassan pbuh , then al-Hussain pbuh , then Ali bin al-Hussain pbut , then Muhammad bin Ali pbut , and you will live to witness him O Jabir, so when you reach him send him my salam, then Jafar bin Muhammad pbut , then Musa bin Jafar pbut , then Ali bin Musa al-Retha pbut , then Muhammad bin Ali pbut , then Ali bin Muhammad pbut , then al-Hassan bin Ali pbut , then Muhammad bin al-Hassan pbut , who will fill the earth with justice and fairness as it was filled with injustice and oppression .”﴿^[24] Also the Prophet pbuhap said to al-Hussain pbuh , ﴾This is my son al-Hussain, he is an Imam who is the son of an Imam, the brother

of an Imam, the father of nine Imams, their ninth is their Riser (Qaim) and their best .”﴿^[25] And Surat al-Qadr proves their Imamate pbut , and the descending of the matter upon them with the angels and the Spirit in Laylatul Qadr^[26] after the passing of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap, otherwise it would have been said that it [Laylatul Qadr] had passed with him, which is invalid because it was narrated that it remains after him pbuhap, and that it is in the last ten days of Ramadan .^[27]

And the proofs of the Imamate of Ali and his sons pbut , the twelve infallibles after the Prophet pbuhap are many, and I only mentioned some of them, and I apologize to Allah and to His Messenger, the Imams pbut and the believers for this shortcoming . Thus there is no excuse left for those who deviated from them pbut and followed he who usurped their rights, while knowing that the matter belongs to them and the one who took it from them has no right to it whatsoever, the Prince of Believers pbuh said, ﴾By Allah, one has taken the successorship for himself « meaning Abu Bakr» and he certainly knew that my position in relation to it was the same as the position of the axis in relation to the hand-mill . The flood of water flows down from me and the bird does not rise up to me . I brought a curtain down over the successorship and kept myself detached from it . So I began to think about whether I should reach out with a cut off hand or be patient over a blind darkness, in which the old one turns aged and the young one turns gray, and the believer toils until he meets his Lord . So I saw that general matters of knowledge and their interpretation would come in Laylatul Qadr, same as with the Messenger of Allah pbuhap .” The man asked, “Didn’t the general matters have an interpretation [already]?” He said, “Yes they did . But the command from Allah swt would come on Laylatul Qadr to the Prophet and the successors: ‘Do such and such’ concerning a matter which they had already known, and they were commanded on how they should work in it .” He said, “Explain that to me .” He said, “The Messenger of Allah pbuhap did not die without having memorized the general matters and their interpretation .” So the man said, “So what knowledge came to him on Laylatul Qadr?” He said, “The commands and the details of that which he had known .” The man said, “So what knowledge do they acquire in Laylatul Qadr besides that which they had already known?” He said, “That is what they were commanded to conceal . And none knows the interpretation of what you asked about except Allah (m) .” The man asked, “So do the successors know that which the prophets do not?” He said, “No . And how could a successor ever know other than the knowledge of what was passed on to him?” The man asked, “So can we say that one of the successors knows that which another successor does not know?” He pbuh said, “No prophet has died except that his knowledge was in the heart of his successor . The angels and the Spirit descend in Laylatul Qadr with the ruling which is applied among the worshippers .” He asked, “And did they not already know that ruling?” He said, “Yes they did know it, but they cannot proceed with any of it until they are commanded in Laylatul Qadr on what to do in the following year .” The man asked, “O Abu Jafar, can this be denied?” He pbuh said, “Whoever denies this does not belong to us .” The man asked, “O Abu Jafar, did the Prophet pbuhap ever receive knowledge in Laylatul Qadr which he did not already know?” He said, “You are not permitted to ask about that . As for the knowledge of what was and what will be, no prophet dies and no successor dies without having the successor after him know it . As for this knowledge which you ask about, Allah has refused for the successors to show it to anyone but themselves .” The man asked, “O son of the Messenger of Allah, how do I know that Laylatul Qadr is in every year?” He said, “If the month of Ramadan comes, read Surat ad-Dukhan a hundred times every night . So if the night of the 23rd comes, you will be looking at the verification of what you asked about .” Al-Kafi Vol . 1 page 251 . And refer to the other narrations in Al-Kafi in the chapter of the “Matter of Laylatul Qadr ”, Vol . 1 page 242 .

the patience over this is wiser so I became patient . And in the eye are specks and in the throat is anguish, I watch my inheritance be plundered, until the first one went his way and handed it over to the other « meaning Omar bin al-Khattab » after himself, and then the saying of al-Asha occurred . Such great difference between my day now, travelling on the camel’s back in difficulty … and between the day of Hayyan brother of Jabir, who travelled in luxury and comfort . I wonder how he resigns from it in his lifetime « as Abu Bakr said on the platform, “Dismiss me as I am not the finest of you while Ali is among you”» and then guarantees it for another one after his death, so they split it among the two of them . So he made the successorship be possessed by that of a coarse wound and rough association . Stumbling in it is often and apologies in it are many . So its owner is like the one who rides a wild horse, if he pulls its rope it throws him and if he leaves it loose he perishes . So I swear by Allah people are now scattered and stumbling « meaning exiting from the straight path of Allah, because Omar began making matters halal and haram according to his desires . So he made haram the temporary marriage of women and the temporary pilgrimage, and he removed “Hurry to the finest work” from the Adhan and he randomly stumbled regarding inheritances » and in diversity and deviation . So I became patient over the length of the period and the intensity of the trial, so when he went his way he let the successorship be among people of whom he claimed I was one . So woe to the elections . When has there ever been doubt about me in respect to the first of them « meaning Abu Bakr» so that I now am associated with these counterparts « belittling them» but I played along with them, and one man of them listened to his own venom « meaning Saad bin Abi Waqas » and another one leaned towards his in-law « meaning Abdul Rahman bin Awf» and so on « indicating the lowness of the people», until their third one stood, puffing out his chest between his tail and his mouth « referring to Uthman and portraying him as an animal which has no concern except fodder and dirt », and with him stood the children of his father « meaning the children of Umayya, may Allah curse them, and they are the cursed tree in the Quran» eating the money of Allah the same way the camel eats the plant of Spring, until his work turned against him and his own stomach turned against him

« meaning his stomach killed him, as it is filled with the usurped money of Allah» so people now became like a lot of hyenas around me, spread around me from every side, until the two Hassans ^[28] were stepped over and my sides were torn, they gather around me like a flock of sheep . So when I rose with the matter of successorship a group of them breached and another were apathetic and a third turned against me, it is as if they never heard the words of Allah, He said, ﴾That is the home of the Hereafter which We assign to those who neither desire exaltation on the earth nor corruption . And the [best] outcome is for the pious .﴿^[29] Indeed, they heard them and realized them . But this world appeared beautiful in their eyes, and they liked its ornaments . I swear by Allah, if the present ones were not here, and if the proof was not established by the presence of the supporter, and what Allah obligated for the knowledgeable ones that they do not settle for the gluttony of an oppressor or the hunger of an oppressed one, I would have thrown its rope on its shoulders and made the last of them drink with the cup of their first . Then you would have seen that this world of yours, to me, is cheaper than the spit of a goat .”﴿^[30] And he pbuh said, ﴾O people, listen to my words and comprehend them from me . The separation [between us] is near . I am the Imam of the creation, and the successor of the finest of the creation, and the husband of the Lady of the women of the nation, and the father of the pure progeny and the guiding Imams . I am the brother of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap and his successor, supporter, minister, companion, chosen one, beloved and friend . I am the Prince of Believers, the leader of those sincere in worship and the master of the successors . My animosity is the animosity of Allah . My peace is the peace of Allah . Obedience to me is obedience to Allah . Allegiance to me is allegiance to Allah . My shia are the supporters of Allah . My ansar are the ansar of Allah . I swear by He Who has created me from nothing, the preservers from the companions of Muhammad pbuhap knew that the breachers, the unjust and the apostates were cursed by the tongue of the Ummi

Prophet . And he who fabricates lies is doomed .”﴿^[31] And when the successorship came to the Prince of Believers Ali pbuh , he tried to walk with the Muslims to Allah, take them out of the darkness and into the light, and spread justice after the spreading of oppression by the hand of the supporters of Uthman, but how difficult it is for him when the people are slaves to this world and the religion is only on their tongues, except for a few who fulfilled the pledge of Allah, and how difficult it is for him when Abu Sufyan, the leader of the disbelievers and the son of Hind, the eater of the liver of Hamza, the Master of the Martyrs, jumped to the authority . And his great jihad pbuh against the oath breakers, the renegades and the apostates, may Allah curse them all, is not hidden from anyone, so he pbuh clarified his right and guided the people to the straight path of Allah, so that the people would not have any excuse to deviate from the Imams pbut , but the people failed them pbut and did not support them, so Muawya (may Allah curse him) killed al-Hassan pbuh , and Yazeed (may Allah curse him) killed al-Hussain pbuh , and only seventy people or slightly more supported al-Hussain pbuh , and he is the fifth of the People of the Cloak, and the Master of the Youth of Paradise pbuh , and the last son of a daughter of a prophet on the face of the earth, and the third successor of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap . And you should know the condition which the Muslims reached in the age of al-Hussain pbuh , of surrender and submission to the tyrant, which led him [al-Hussain pbuh ] to sacrifice the progeny of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap and his sacred self; to alert the Muslims that they moved away from the religion and exited from the allegiance of Allah into the allegiance of the tyrant and Satan by submitting to Yazeed and the likes of him (may Allah curse them) . So on, the successors of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap after al- Hussain pbuh continued the path of jihad in the way of Allah and calling people to return to the authentic Islamic religion with which Muhammad pbuhap came, and not the religion which those tyrants want, those who took over the nation . And the blood of al-Hussain pbuh had a major impact on the return of many Muslim to the allegiance of Allah swt , and from that time, a popular Islamic base started to form led by the family of Muhammad pbut , which represents the authentic

Islam of Muhammad . And they pbut continued to call to Allah, and the tyrants continued to call to Satan, and they [the tyrants] found, from among those who traded this world in exchange for the religion, the ones to support them . And the successors of the Prophet pbut were severely harmed and their followers were killed, and the tyrants of this nation did to them what Pharaoh did to the believers from the Children of Israel, the arms and the legs were cut off, the believers were crucified on the stumps of the palm trees, but the Truth has its own people . And whenever they harmed the believers, the followers would increase by thousands . And when the Imamate reached the se al of the successors of the family of Muhammad pbut [Imam al-Mahdi pbuh -Trans .], Allah wished to protect him thus keeping him from the eyes of the tyrants so they do not kill him like they killed his fathers pbut , and he kept leading the Islamic nation for a period of over seventy years through people who are from the finest believers, who contacted him directly and they conveyed the questions of the Muslims to him and conveyed his responses about the different matters, and his instructions pbuh . And when this time period passed, Allah wished to send him into the long absence, until Allah would permit him to rise, when a generation of this nation is ready to support him and support the religion of Allah, to place the true religion of Allah over the religion [of the entire world] . And some narrations from him pbuh and from his fathers pbut show that the leadership of the nation, religiously and worldly, is in hands of the narrators of their narrations . And some interpreted the narrators of narrations to be the just clerics during the time of his absence pbuh , this is in the situation that there is no particular representative of him pbuh who conveys from him and conveys his commands to the believers . As for the situation of his dispatch of a messenger from himself, then he must be obeyed, even by the clerics . Moreover they should support him, and if they fail him or disobey his commands, they are out of the allegiance of Ahlul Bayt pbut , and they are not to be obeyed, moreover, they must be disobeyed and obedience is to the messenger who is sent from the Imam pbuh . And it is mentioned in the book of Thakhirat al-Salihin by Sheikh Abdul Kareem al-Zengany (may Allah have mercy upon him), on pages

7, 8, and 9: “As for the allegiance to the jurist who meets the conditions of being a jurist, then it is a branch derived from the allegiance of the Imam pbuh which is derived from the allegiance of the Prophet pbuhap which is derived from the divine allegiance and authority .” And to clarify: It is from the clear obvious fact that the power of the Creator, the Almighty is His ability over His creation, is the most superior type of power and most intense type of authority, and from this divine allegiance and authority, the allegiance of the Prophet pbuhap is derived, and it is referred to in the saying of the Almighty, ﴾The Prophet is more worthy of the believers than themselves﴿,^[32]and from this prophetic allegiance, the allegiance of the Imam pbuh was derived as the Prophet pbuhap indicated in the narration of Al-Ghadeer, which is authentically and frequently narrated in the books of both sects, thus the Prophet of Allah pbuhap paved the way for the allegiance to the Imam by his saying, ﴾O people, am I not more worthy of you than yourselves?” They said, “Yes .” He said, “Whosoever’s master I am, Ali is his master”﴿,^[33]etc . in order for this paving to be an ultimate proof that he pbuhap meant “worthy” [awla ~ أو] as in the meaning derived from “master” [mawla ~ مو] and he showed that the allegiance to the Imam pbuh is a branch from the allegiance to the Prophet pbuhap, and a section of it . And to support this, there are the thorough narrations that the Imam pbuh is the proof of Allah upon the people and that he pbuh has the ultimate authority from Allah swt over the people, and this allegiance is the origin and the pillar of of the religion, upon which the religion was built . And one of the branches of the allegiance to the Imam pbuh is the allegiance to the jurist who meets the conditions of being a jurist, which are summarized in the interpretation which is attributed to Imam al-Askari pbuh in this phrase, ﴾And whoever among the jurists preserves himself, maintains his religion, goes against his desires, and obeys the command of his master [ mawla], then it is permissible for the common people to follow him .”﴿^[34] And the Imam pbuh clarified the truth about going against the desires in the narration which was narrated by al-Tibrisi in the book Al-

Ihtijaj, on the authority of the eighth Imam al-Retha pbuh : ﴾Ali bin al-Hussain pbuh said, ‘If you see a man of fine characteristics, guided, humble in his reason and modest in his actions, do not be tempted by him, for how many are incapable of clutching this world and incapable of committing the forbidden deeds only because of the weakness of his build, humiliation, and cowardice of his heart . Thus he set the religion as a trap for it [this world], thus he still deceives people with his appearance, so if he is capable of the forbidden he commits it . And if you find him abstaining from forbidden money, do not be tempted by him as the temptations of the creation differ, for how many abstain from the forbidden money, even if it is a large amount, but insists on approaching an ugly woman thus committing the forbidden with her, so if you find him abstaining from that, do not be tempted by him until you see what his mind intended, for how many abstain from all of that and still have no solid intellect to refer to, so that which he corrupts with his ignorance is more than that which he reforms with his intellect and his hard work, so if you find his intellect to be solid, do not be tempted by him until you see whether his intellect is in accordance with his desires or are his desires in accordance with his intellect? And how his love is for the presidencies and his asceticism concerning them; as among the people there is he who lost this world and the hereafter by abandoning this world and seeing that the pleasure of the false presidency is better than the pleasure of wealth and the permitted graces . Thus he abandons all of that in the request for presidency, so when it is said to him, “Fear Allah,” his pride leads him into sin, so hellfire is sufficient for him, the worst refuge . And he is stumbling randomly, the initiation of his falsehood leads him to the greatest loss, and by his request, Allah provides him with that which enables him to transgress, as much as he asks for, and he permits what Allah forbids and forbids what Allah permits, not caring about what he lost from his religion once the presidency that he struggled for was secured for him . So those are the ones whom Allah’s anger is upon and He cursed them and prepared for them a humiliating torment . But the finest of men is he who makes his desires in accordance with the command of Allah, and his strength is exerted for the satisfaction of Allah . He sees the humiliation with the truth to be closer to the eternal glory than the glory within the falsehood . And he knows that the little which he bears is from its hardship

takes him to the eternal Heaven in a home that does not end nor is it destroyed, and he knows that its goodness which follows him, if he follows his desires, it leads him to a torment that has no respite nor does it end . Thus this man is the finest man, so hold on to him, and follow his way, and direct yourselves to your Lord, and beg Allah by him [this man], as no prayer of his is refused and no request of his is denied .’”﴿^[35] Moreover, the elements of the allegiance to the jurist who meets the conditions consist of three ranks: One of them is the position of jurisdiction regarding what the common person needs in his work, and its application is toward the subissues . And this position of jurisdiction is based on matters which are relied upon in extracting verdicts, and from these matters a rightful verdict is arranged . The second is the position of the judiciary and the ruling of what he sees as righteous in the pleas and other specified cases . The third is the position of mandating the funds and the people, and it is a negotiable position from the general allegiance . And in the book of Tahtheeb al-Usool, by Sayyed Abd al-Ala al- Sabzawary (may Allah rest his soul) in Vol . 2 page 128, “The authority of the jurist who meets the conditions is not restricted to the obligation of following his jurisdiction, rather people must also submit to him even if he was silent . This is because it is valid for Allah swt to take him as a Proof on the Day of Resurrection, and it is valid for him to complain to Allah swt about the ignorant ones if they do not refer to him in order to understand the verdicts . It has been mentioned in the narrations, ﴾Three people will complain to their Lord on the Day of Resurrection: a knowledgeable one who is neglected, … ﴿He also has the authority to administer the world of the humans and their policies by a divine administration, provided that his authority extends to every matter .” Therefore the obligation of Muslims in the age of the major occultation is to support the religion by supporting the Imam’s particular representative, sent from him pbuh , or the just and the ascetic jurist who meets the conditions; this is in the case that there is no particular representative for the Imam pbuh who has the authority that extends to every end .

Moreover, it is the duty of the clerics today to face the tyrants; because it is a jihad of defending the heart of Islam in this age, when the tyrants are trying to obliterate Islam completely and to return the Islamic countries back to the days of ignorance, just as Yazeed (may Allah curse him) did in the time of al-Hussain pbuh , rather more than that, they filled the Islamic countries with idols and images, and obligated the Muslims to respect and sanctify them; because these idols and images represents their satanic and despicable personalities . And this case represents the clearest forms of disbelief in Allah, thus the knowledgeable one must show his knowledge and fight them and support the fighters against them even if he does so by [issuing] a ruling and delivering it to the people, and he must work on educating the society religiously . As for the clerics, or say the ignorant ones, because the non-practicing cleric is in fact ignorant, as it was narrated from them [Ahlul Bayt] pbut, * who lie in dark dungeons without even caring to hear about the status of the Islamic society, or to rise with the Islamic religion through an effective and true rise in the society, or to lift a thing, they have no relation whatsoever to the surviving sect . They will find themselves on the Day of Resurrection in these same dark dungeons with blackened faces . The Messenger of Allah pbuhap said, ﴾The most evil of people on the Day of Resurrection is the cleric whose knowledge was not benefited from .”﴿^[36] The Prince of Believers pbuh says in one of his sermons, ﴾And another one who was called knowledgeable though he has no knowledge . So he quotes sayings of ignorance from ignorant ones, and sayings of misguidance from misguided ones, and he sets a trap for the people with ropes of arrogance and false sayings . He perceived the book by his own opinions, and twisted the truth to match his desires . He gives security from the greatest [evil] deeds and belittles the major crimes . He says that he stops at the allegories while in those he has fallen, he says that he retires from innovations and between them he lies, so the image is the image of a human, and the heart is the heart of an animal . He does not know the door of guidance and thus follow it, nor the door of blindness and thus turn away from it . That one is the dead of the living ones . So where are you to go?”﴿ Nahj al-Balagha explained by Muhammad Abdu , Vol . 1 page 153 .

From the above it is shown that the Islamic religion has its own political theory, which is integrated in legislation and implementation, and Muslims must not neglect it because it is the most complete political theory known to mankind, and there is no political theory that could rise to its level because the One who placed and established it is Allah swt , the All-Knowing, the All-Wise . And the one who must implement it is the Prophet pbuhap, or the infallible Imam pbuh after him, or the just, ascetic and divine cleric who meets the conditions in the case of the absence of the Imam pbuh , and that there is no representative for him pbuh , and praise be to Allah alone . • the sky asking Allah’s forgiveness for him . And the other man was given knowledge by Allah, so he kept it from the servants of Allah and used it for his greed, and he sold it for a small price . This man will be lashed on the day of Resurrection with a lash of fire, and an angel from the angels calls out before every witness saying, ‘This is so and so the son of so and so, Allah has given him knowledge in the world of the dunya so he kept it from His servants,’ this is until his retribution ends .”﴿ Rawthat al-Waithin page 10 .