Hadith 53

(The books) ‘Uyoon Al Akhbar Al Reza-asws’ (and) ‘Illal Al Sharaie’, in (the book) ‘Illal’ – Al Fazl Bin Shazan, ‘From Al-Reza-asws: ‘So, if he says, ‘Why did He-azwj Make the Masters-asws of the Command (Ul Al-Amr) and Commanded with obeying them-asws? ’ It will be said, ‘For many reasons. From these is that the people, when they are told to stop at a limited limit and been Commanded not to exceed that limit due to what is in it of their corruption, that can neither be affirmed nor established except by making a trustee to be upon them with regards to it, seizing them with the stopping at what is allowed for them and preventing them from the exceeding, and the entering into what is dangerous upon them, because, had that not been like that, it would so happen that there would be someone who would not leave its pleasure and its benefit to spoil others. Thus, He-azwj Made a Custodian to be upon them, forbidding them from the corruption and establishing among them the legal punishments and the ordinances. And from these is that, surely we cannot find any sect from the sects, nor a nation from the nations remaining and living except by a custodian and a leader for what there is no escape for them from him, in the matters of the Religion and the world. He-azwj did not Inform, in the Wisdom of the Wise, that He-azwj leaves the people, from what He-azwj Knows that there is no escape for them from it, nor any standing for them except by him-asws, so they would be fighting against their enemies with him-asws, and distributing their war booties by him-asws, and establish their congregations and their communities and prevent their unjust ones from their oppressed ones. And from these is that, if He-azwj had not Made for them an Imam-asws, a custodian, trustworthy, protector, a depository for the teaching of the nation, the Religion would have gone and the Sunnah and the ordinances altered, and the innovators would have made additions in it and the atheists would have reduced from it, and that would have been confusing upon the Muslims, because we would have found the people as inverted, needy, without perfection, along with their differing(s) and the differing(s) of their opinions, and their separate situations. If He-azwj had not Made a custodian, a protector to be for them of what the Messengers-as came with, they would have been corrupted upon an approximate of what we-asws have explained and the (Religious) laws and the Sunnahs, and the ordinances, and the Eman would have been altered, and in that would be a corruption of the people in their entirety’’. [52]