Discussion of the Narrations

The Prime Example in Recommending Islam and Its Complete Obedience

Jābir narrated from Abū Jaʿfar (a.s.) that he said: I asked him about the exegesis of this verse from God’s words: “When he said to his sons, ‘What will you worship after me?’ They said, ‘We will worship your God and the God of your fathers, Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac—one God.’” He said: “It applies to the Qāʾim.”(385)

Allusion: Perhaps the meaning of the tradition is that the perfect infallible human, of whom the Walī al-ʿAṣr is a clear example, always has and continues to have such a recommendation for the purpose of reviving monotheism and spreading the pure effects of Islam, just as they themselves fully comply with the recommendations of previous prophets.