Hasan: This is a very old yet very significant question.

Dear Sir, you know that Prophecy or the Prophethood is a Divine position, that is, a prophet is assigned by the Almighty Allah and not an individual or a group of people. Now, the Imamate is exactly the same; it is the natural extension of Prophethood by all means except for the Divine revelation. As long as the fact that the Imamate (Imamah) serves the same purpose as the Prophecy (Nobowa), it should exclusively be given the Glorious Allah.

Anwar: Why is it that you are insisting that it has to be exclusively from the Glorious Allah?

Hasan: I am not talking out of stubbornness or desire. It a reasonable conclusion that I can expand on:

· We have already agreed that the Imam has to be infallible and the best of his time in every single dimension.

· Infallibility is a concealed matter known only by the Almighty Allah.

· Thus, the Imamate has to be from the Almighty Allah