{"id":30806,"date":"2026-07-01T01:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=30806"},"modified":"2026-07-01T01:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:52:54","slug":"the-failure-of-the-imamate-to-be-attained-by-the-oppressors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/the-failure-of-the-imamate-to-be-attained-by-the-oppressors\/","title":{"rendered":"The failure of the Imamate to be attained by the oppressors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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### The Ineligibility of Wrongdoers for the Imamate<\/h5>\n
**Question:**
\nPeace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. How can it be proven that anyone who has committed an act of *Zulm* (wrongdoing\/injustice), even for a single moment in their life, does not attain the station of Imamate, even after repentance, based on the Almighty’s saying: *”My covenant does not include the wrongdoers”* (Quran 2:124)? Please provide illustrative examples.<\/h5>\n
**Answer:**
\nDear Brother Abu Ali,
\nPeace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.<\/h5>\n
When Abraham (peace be upon him) asked for the Imamate for some of his descendants, the response was to negate it for the wrongdoers among them.<\/h5>\n
However, one might ask: What is the nature of the *Zulm* (wrongdoing) intended in this verse? Is it wrongdoing for even a specific period of a person’s life, or is it wrongdoing throughout the person’s entire life?<\/h5>\n
The answer becomes clear through what the author of *Al-Mizan* relates from some of his teachers, stating:<\/h5>\n
> “People, according to logical categorization, fall into four categories:
\n> 1. One who was a wrongdoer throughout their entire life.
\n> 2. One who was not a wrongdoer throughout their entire life.
\n> 3. One who was a wrongdoer in the beginning of their life but not at the end.
\n> 4. One who is the opposite (a wrongdoer at the end but not the beginning).
\n>
\n> Abraham (peace be upon him) was of too high a stature to ask for the Imamate for the first and fourth categories of his descendants. Thus, two categories remained. Allah negated one of them\u2014the one who was a wrongdoer at the beginning of his life but not at the end\u2014leaving only the other: the one who was never a wrongdoer throughout their entire life.” *(1)*<\/h5>\n
May you remain in the care of Allah.<\/h5>\n
***<\/h5>\n
*(1) Tafsir al-Mizan, 1:274, regarding the verse: “And [mention, O Muhammad], when Abraham was tried by his Lord with commands…”*<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

### The Ineligibility of Wrongdoers for the Imamate **Question:** Peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. How can it be proven that anyone who has committed an act of *Zulm* (wrongdoing\/injustice), even for a single moment in their life, does not attain the station of Imamate, even after repentance, based …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research--"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30808,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30806\/revisions\/30808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}