True Vision - The Holy Prophet and the Imam

The Holy Prophet and the Imam

Tags: Jihad, Guidance, Light upon light

Here the specific principle of Divine wisdom should be remembered that wherever in the Wise Qur'ān, God says something to the Holy Prophet about religious matters, He takes into consideration all those means of knowledge, wisdom and guidance by using which he was going to guide the people of the world in the present and in the future, as it is clear from the following examples:

In verse (42:52) God says: "(O Prophet!) Verily you guide to the right path." This verse shows decisively that the Holy Prophet will be responsible to fulfil the sacred duty of continuous guidance of Islam till the Day of Resurrection. And it is obvious that this is possible only if he were to do so through the Holy Qur'ān and his successor, the Imam of the time. Praise belongs to God, he does so. And this is the reason that today, the Ismailis obey the Holy Prophet through the farmān of the Imam of the time.
In verse (9:73) God says: "O Prophet! Do jihād against the infidels (with sword) and the hypocrites (with tongue), and be severe with them." It is obvious that this command of jihād is literally given only to the Holy Prophet, but by this God does not mean that he alone will do it against the infidels and the hypocrites, rather in this command are implied all those means of jihād with which he was able to do so, such as the commanders of the army whom the Holy Prophet used to appoint. This clearly shows that the successor of the Prophet, i.e. the true Imam is mentioned in many Qur'ānic verses in such a way that the common people are not aware of it. Thus, it follows from this that the veneration of the Imam after the Prophet, is incumbent in Islam.
A wisdom-filled part of the Verse of Light 24:35 "light upon light" which consists of only three words, contains so many wisdoms that by knowing them, many realities of light can be evident. First of all, it alludes that the light transfers from one personality to another, because this is the meaning of "light upon light". This is true not only in the sense that the Prophet was light in his time and after him the Imam also, but also in the sense that its chain of personalities has continued from the time of Hazrat Ādam. Thus, it is clear that the veneration of the Imam of the time is unanimously accepted according to the Qur'ān and Islam. Thus, this belief is a fact that the vision of the present Imam represents the vision of the Prophet and the vision of the Prophet that of God.

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