You want to become an Imam! | Ali Reza Panahian

You want to become an Imam!

“And We desired to bestow a favour upon those who were oppressed in the earth, and to make them the Imams.” (Qur’an 28:5) How magnificent! How inspiring! How thought provoking! You want to become an Imam! Look at yourself. Do you deserve to be, or not?! You want to become an Imam!

Why hasn’t God said, “I want to make some of you Imams?” “God not everyone can become an Imam.” God will respond, “Silent. I know what I’m saying.” All of you are refined, managers, governors and commanders. Although you might live and work in positions where you are obedient to senior commanders or governors. Everyone should have the talent of managing and understand managing. Everyone should be able to talk as a manager and have the capacity to manage! Anyone Imam Mahdi (‘a.j.) wants to use, he can put in charge. Each is more deserving than the others. This is how the society will be saved!

Do you know what happened during the wartime? The base commander saw that some of his division commanders were better than himself. A division commander saw that some of his battalion commanders were better than himself. A battalion commander saw that some of his platoon commanders were better than himself. How was the command carried out at the bottom when it came from the top?! Each one. Row by row. All of them were qualified! You would see the person at an entrenchment had the talent of managing a hundred divisions! The command was easily accepted through to the lowest! The good went up! Each had the merit to be an Imam.

Actually, it has been said about some martyrs at the end of time that each has the ability to direct many cities. If the oppressed don’t want to be oppressed, they should be aware of the process of managing. God wants to turn all of us into real human beings. Yes, then a person will say, “My role is to do this now, although I have the talent to do hundreds of others things.” How enjoyable life will be this way! A person has the talent to manage a hundred things, but Hujjat ibn al-Hasan al-Askari (‘a.j.) has him do a different job. I want to take you secretly close to the Alqamah stream. Aba al-Fazl al-Abbas deserved to be the ruler of the universe, not just the commander of Aba Abdillah al-Husayn’s (‘a) army. The Imam (‘a) said, “My Abbas, bring water.” What will happen! We want to awaken this love within ourselves and train that much talent along with it.

Everyone should have the talent of managing and understand managing. Everyone should be able to talk as a manager and have the capacity to manage! Anyone Imam Mahdi (‘a.j.) wants to use, he can put in charge. Each is more deserving than the others. This is what will save the society! Why hasn’t God said, “I want to make some of you the Imams?” All of you are genteel, managers, governors and commanders.

[From the series of speeches under the topic of “The Last Preparation before the Reappearance of the Saviour, Correcting Management in Family and Society.” Muharram 1441.]

Last year they accused me, “He is leading the youth towards capitalism.” This year they will definitely say, “He is leading the youth towards wanting posts!” They will definitely say this.