Hadith 11

(The books) ‘Ikmal Al Deen’ (and) ‘Al Amaali’ of Al Sadouq – Al Sinani, from Ibn Zakariya Al Qatan, from Ibn Habeen, from Al Fazl Bin Al Safr, from Abu Muawiya, from Al Amsh, ‘From Al-Sadiq-asws, from his-asws father-asws, from Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws having said: ‘We-asws are the Imams-asws of the Muslims and Divine Authorities of Allah-azwj upon the worlds, and chiefs of the Momineen, and guides of the resplendent, and Masters (Mawlas) of the Momineen, and we-asws are the security of the people of the earth just as the stars are a safety for the people of the sky. And we-asws are those, Allah-azwj Withholds the sky from falling upon the earth, except by His Permission? [22: 65], and due to us-asws the earth is Withheld from shaking with its inhabitants, and due to us the rains come down, and due to us-asws the Mercy spreads and the Blessings of the earth emerge, and if one-asws from us-asws would not have been in the earth, it would collapse along with its inhabitants’. Then he-asws said: ‘And the earth has not been vacant from a Divine Authority of Allah-azwj being in it since Allah-azwj Created Adam-as, whether apparent, well-known, or absent, veiled, and will not be vacant from a Divine Authority of Allah-azwj being in it up to the establishment of the Hour; and had it not been that, Allah-azwj would not be worshipped’. Suleyman said, ‘I said to Al-Sadiq-asws, ‘So, how can the people benefit by the Divine Authority, the absent, the veiled? ’ He-asws said: ‘Just as they are benefitting with the sun when the clouds veil it’’. [10]