and it is stained with the vice of deviating from the sunnah of following. let the first era be observed how the companions hastened after the death of the messenger of allah may allah bless him and grant him peace to appoint an imam and to conclude the pledge of allegiance and how they believed that to be an inevitable duty and a right that must be done immediately and hastily and how they avoided procrastination and delaying until they left because of their preoccupation with it preparing the messenger of allah may allah bless him and grant him peace and they knew that if a moment passed over them without an imam perhaps a terrible incident would attack them and they would commit a great incident in which opinions would be scattered and followers would differ. obedient he gathers the scattered opinions we do not violate the system and the infallibility is invalidated and the bonds of the rulings collapse due to schism. for this reason they preferred to hasten to him and did not turn immediately except to him. this is conclusive evidence that the appointment of the imam is a necessary matter in preserving islam.
وتضمخ برذيلة العدول عن سنن الاتباع فليلاحظ العصر الاول كيف تسارع الصحابة بعد وفاة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الى نصب الامام وعقد البيعة وكيف اعتقدوا ذلك فرضا محتوما وحقا واجبا على الفور والبدار وكيف اجتنبوا فيه التوانى والاستئخار حتى تركوا بسبب الاشتغال به تجهيز رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلموا انه لو تصرم عليهم لحظة لاامام لهم فربما هجم عليهم حادثة ملمة وارتكبوا في حادثة عظيمة تتشتت فيها الآراء وتختلف متبوعا مطاعا يجمع شتات الآراء لا نخرم النظام وبطل العصام وتداعت بالانفصام عرى الاحكام فلاجل ذلك اثروا البدار اليه ولم يعرجوا في الحال الا عليه وهذا قاطع في ان نصب الامام امر ضروري في حفظ الإسلام