Prophets is learned from the religion. Does it suggest that there is no way to know the Shari`ah? How can we know it while it was not known? We are charged to demonstrate.

What would be the benefit and wisdom of a hidden imam that has disappeared for more than 1000 years? Is it that he feared that Allah will not protect him from his enemies, and he will not be guarded similar to the way He protected Moses from the designs of the Pharaoh or Abraham from the fire of Nimrod? Or is it that one will take advantage of him? This does not complement the proof of Allah over existence. Or is this negligence on the part of the Shari`ah, the disruption of laws, avoiding the commanding of the good and the forbidding of the evil, jihad, the establishing of the punishments?

An imam can‟t be established if he is absent. What would be the benefit and wisdom in his creation and his preparation before such a long period; to seize the opportunity of power with a possible fear of vulnerability and helplessness as playfulness and a pastime? It is impossible for Allah, who is mightier than anything on earth or in heaven, to do something so weak or helpless! This denotes fear of missed opportunities. This is the sunnah of Allah from the beginning of what our brothers see and what we see. The Muslims do not accept this call without evidence or proof, as well as appealing to intellect, justice, uniformity, or fairness.

If you know that this is our inherent point that is possible from the narrations that counter what was narrated by the great Imams Ahmed bin Sulayman16 and „Abdullah bin Hamza on the authority of „Ali bin Musa ar-Riža, upon him be peace, who said:

Verily, Allah the Glorified extracted and nominated 12 rulers from the Children of Israel–Jacob bin Isaac bin Abraham, the Friend, may the peace of Allah be upon them.” Then he said: “This is similar to the extraction of 12 rulers from the children of al-Hassan and al-Hussein; six from al-Hassan and six from al-Hussein.” Then he said: “Following the six of al-Hassan and al-Hussein, they will never stop. It did not stop after this six because one is commissioned to stop. They are similar to the descendants of the Children of Israel and they are the proof of the Allah on creation. The people of the land were safe and torment was eradicated.”

It was a long hadīth that we selected from At-Tuhfat al-Fatimiyya.

What can we relate regarding the Hadīth of Two Weighty Things and the Hadīth of the Ark and what these two narrations demonstrate? What can we gather from these two proofs; as well as the significance of the Verse of Purification (al-Ayat at-Tathir) and the Verse or Affection (al-Ayat al-Muwadda)?

According to the Hadīth of the Ark, it is narrated: ((The People of my House are like the ark of Noah. Whoever embarks upon them will be saved and whoever doesn‟t, will be drowned)).

According to the Hadīth of the Two Weighty Things, it is narrated with different wordings. It cannot have different meanings because the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his progeny, did not say it in only one place, and he said it in very clear wording. Its wording is narrated by the Imam of Yemen, al-Hādi ila al-Haqq, upon him be peace, on the authority of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his progeny, who said:

((Verily, I leave you something by which if you hold on to them, you will never go astray

16 He is Imam Mutawwakil „ala Allah Ahmed bin Sulayman (d. 1171 AD), the Zaydi imam who unified the Zaydi state in Yemen.