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Code of Conduct - Majlis 5: Fulfilment of bay’ah with the Imams

Fulfilment of the terms of bay’ah with the Imams God says, “O mu’mins, fulfill the terms of your contracts”. (5:1) “Fulfill your promise, you will be enquired about it” (17:34) “(O Muhammad) those who enter into a covenant with you make a covenant with God. The hand of God is upon their hands. He who breaks it does harm to himself, and he who fulfils the terms of the covenant which he has made to God will be amply rewarded” (48:10) These verses make it clear to us that our pledge to the Imams is equivalent to our pledge to the Prophet which is a pledge to God. Just as devotion to the Imams is linked with the devotion to God, which under no circumstances can be given up, the fulfilment of our terms of covenant with them is also a sort of devotion from which cannot break away to the slightest extent. If a devotee is devoted to God but he disobeys His Prophet or belies him his devotion will not be taken into account and he will be punished for falsifying the prophet and disobeying him. It needs no further testimony than the following verse of the Quran which speaks of the infidels who believed in God but did not believe in the Prophet and who consequently incurred the wrath of God, who condemned them to perdition. The verse runs thus, “If you ask them as to who has created them, they say God has created us”. Since they disbelieve in the Prophet, in spite of their acknowledgment of the Lordship of God, they expose themselves to His wrath because of their (disbelief) in His Prophet. Similarly, if a devotee believes in God and in His Prophet and does not believe in the Imamat of the Imams, the successors of the Prophet, even if he were to worship God throughout his lifetime he becomes one of those about whom god says, “We shall look to their deeds and treat them as nothing but particles of scattered dust” (25:23) Thus, if one is devoted to God and His Prophet but disobeys the Imam-of-his-Time or belies him, practically disobeys God who will not recognize his devotion to Him and His Prophet in View of his denial and disobedience of the Imam of his time. This is clear from the fact that God has linked the devotion to Him to the devotion to the prophet and the devotion to the Imams so inextricably that none of these three devotions can be separated. Hence, he who fulfils his pledge to God, His Prophet and his ‘wasees’, that is the Imams, entitles himself to be included in the group about which God says, “They will be simply rewarded”. The ample reward stands for ‘jannat’. But he who breaks his pledge to God and disjoins from what God has ordered him to join is one of those losers about whom God says, “They has lost this world as well as the next”. They lose the pleasure of the Imam in this world and the pleasure of God in the next. They expose themselves to the punishment of God for disjoining the devotion to the Imams from the devotion to God which they have been enjoined upon to join. In short, fulfill your pledges to them to the fullest extent. Take particular care of the return of the amaanat to them. You have pledged this to God. You have taken serious vows of your loyalty to them. Strive hard to earn the reward of God and see that you do not become the loser. Think again and again over the seriousness of the pledges and the vows that you have made to the Imams. Keep these vows always fresh in your mind and return the amaanat to God and the Imams. God says, “Secure are those mu’mins who give back the amaanat, fulfill their vows and are particular about their prayers. They are the persons who will inherit ‘firdaus’ in which they will have a permanent abode”.(23:8-11)These verses make it crystal clear to us that the fulfilment of pledges and the return of the amaanat carries the mu’mins to ‘jannat’ and the breaking of the vows and dishonesty in the submission of amaanat will drag them down to the lowest depth of the hell-fire. O mu’mins, you must remember that you cannot fulfil your pledge and be honest in the discharge of your obligations unless you know well the pledges you have entered into and the obligations you have put yourselves under. Hence, it is necessary for you that you should remind yourselves of the covenants that you have made with the Imam and the terms of the covenant that you have taken upon yourselves to fulfil. Selections from Qadi al-Numan’s Kitaab al-himma fi adab atba‘ al-a’imma English translation by: Professor Jawad Muscati (Ustad Fil-Uloom il-Arabiya) & Khan Bahadur Professor A.M. Moulvi (MA) Narrated by Khadim Philip Tyrer #Fatimid #ismaili #qadinuman #qazinauman #alysunderji #didar #codeofcounduct #kitabalhimma #JawadMuscati #AMMoulvi #PhilipTyrer #mulaqat #agakhan #imam #imamat #satpanth #arabic #ettiquette #audiobook #cairo #tunisia