and for the method of these people they have chosen the ways of looking into rational matters as a precaution against what is in them of error. so how can they be established in adhering to the reports of individuals and then they are forced to claim a report that is transmitted by the master of the law may the blessings of god be upon him which is as clear as a report transmitted by the prophet about his mission his call his challenge to prophethood his law the five daily prayers the hajj fasting and all the other widespread events? and no matter how much the rational person reviews his insight he will not need a guide to guide him and direct his method in the face of impossibility in knowing the impossibility of this claim. how can that be when this claim is impossible and difficult for the imamis in the claim of the imamate of ali alone. so how can they establish the claim of the imamate of their companion with the multiplication of the work on them and the abundance of their claims to the point that they are led to prove the imamate of the one whose imamate they believe today? however while we do not need to clarify the corruption of their claim we point out what is in it of difficulty and impossibility and we say that the claimant of the imamate today for a specific person from the family of the messenger of god may god bless him and grant him peace is in need of a continuous text from the messenger of god regarding ali. may god be pleased with him it ends in clarity to the extent of the continuous news about the existence of ali muawiyah and amr ibn alaas for we know their existence through continuous news and no matter how much he claims that this news was continuous in the time of the messenger of god may god bless him and grant him peace it is in need of the extent of continuous news after him in every era that becomes extinct until
ولمنهج هؤلاء اجتووا طرق النظر في العقليات احترازا عما فيها من الخطأ فكيف يستتب لهم التمسك بأخبار الآحاد فيضطرون الى دعوى خبر متواتر فيه من صاحب الشرع صلوات الله عليه تجري في الوضوح مجرى الخبر المتواتر في بعثته ودعوته وتحديه بالنبوة وشرعه الصلوات الخمس والحج والصوم وسائر الوقائع المستفيضة ومهما راجع العاقل بصيرته استغنى في معرفة استحالة هذه الدعوى عن مرشد يرشده ويسدد منهجه على وجه الاستحالة كيف وقد استحالت هذه الدعوى وتعذرت على الامامية في دعوى إمامة علي فقط فكيف تستتب لهؤلاء دعوى إمامة صاحبهم مع تضاعف الشغل عليهم وكثرة دعاويهم إلى أن ينساقوا إلى إثبات الإمامة لمن إعتقدوا إمامته اليوم ولكنا مع الاستغناء عن الايضاح لفساد دعواهم ننبه على ما فيه من العسر والاستحالة ونقول مدعي الإمامة اليوم لشخص معين من عترة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يفتقر الى نص متواتر عن رسول الله على علي رضي الله عنه ينتهي في الوضوح الى حد الخبر المتواتر عن وجود علي ومعاوية وعمرو بن العاص فإنا بالتواتر عرفنا وجودهم ومهما ادعى تواتر هذا الخبر في زمان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم افتقر الى حد التواتر بعده في كل عصر ينقرض حتى