پوستر حدیث: نقش علما در زمان غیبت

لَوْ لاَ مَنْ يَبْقَى بَعْدَ غَيْبَةِ قَائِمِكُمْ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ مِنَ اَلْعُلَمَاءِ اَلدَّاعِينَ إِلَيْهِ وَ اَلدَّالِّينَ عَلَيْهِ، وَ اَلذَّابِّينَ عَنْ دِينِهِ بِحُجَجِ اَللَّهِ، وَ اَلْمُنْقِذِينَ لِضُعَفَاءِ عِبَادِ اَللَّهِ مِنْ شِبَاكِ إِبْلِيسَ وَ مَرَدَتِهِ، وَ مِنْ فِخَاخِ اَلنَّوَاصِبِ لَمَا بَقِيَ أَحَدٌ إِلاَّ اِرْتَدَّ عَنْ دِينِ اَللَّهِ، وَ لَكِنَّهُمُ اَلَّذِينَ يُمْسِكُونَ أَزْمَةَ قُلُوبِ ضُعَفَاءِ اَلشِّيعَةِ كَمَا يُمْسِكُ صَاحِبُ اَلسَّفِينَةِ سُكَّانَهَا أُولَئِكَ هُمُ اَلْأَفْضَلُونَ عِنْدَ اَللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

الاحتجاج  ج2 ص455

Imam Hadi (pbuh)

If in the occultation of our Qa’im (a.t.f.s.), such scholars would not have been there who would invite the people towards their Imam and guided them towards him; if they would have not protected Allah’s Religion with the help of irrefutable divine proofs and rescued the weak followers of Allah’s religion from Satanic plots, released them from the traps of the mischief mongers and those antagonistic to the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.) (ناصبى), then surely all the people would have become apostates (مرتدّ) i.e. they would have deviated from the religion. But these are the people who protect the weak Shias just as a captain protects his ship. These people enjoy the greatest position in front of Allah.

Al-Ihtijaj (Tabrisi), v 2, p 455