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Grapes and wine in the vessel, and a drinker. Is the art of the blameworthy a drinker or a magician? And perhaps it is more correct that they are both responsible: this Sunni oppresses him, his injustice, and his shedding of the blood of the Alawites without accountability. And this Alawite seeks revenge without limit. And neither of them considered the matter in terms of the interest of the Muslims, but rather considered it in terms of himself and his party. And God judges between them in what they dispute. And if we break down the idea of the Mahdi into its primary elements, we find it rests on: 1. The belief in an Imam from the Household of the Prophet, and that this recognition is a foundation of faith, like the belief in the prophethood of Muhammad. It is narrated from Abu Hamza that Abu Ja'far said to me: "Only he who knows God worships God. As for he who does not know Him, he has gone far astray." I said, "May I be sacrificed for you, what is the knowledge of God?" He said: "To believe in God Almighty and to believe in His Messenger, and to be loyal to Ali, and to follow him and the Imams of Guidance, peace be upon them, and to disavow God Almighty from their enemy. And he is not a true Muslim who does not acknowledge God, His Messenger, and all the Imams, and the Imam of his time, and he who does not entrust his affairs to the Imam and offer himself in his cause." So, the belief in the Imam is a pillar

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