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We are all born in the fitrat of Islam. A child is in absolute mode of fitrat, the way

Allah(swt) expects us to be as complete momins. So let's analyze it.

A baby's only way of communication is to cry. That's it. He's hungry, he cries. He's

dirty, he cries. He's sick, he cries. He doesn't know who he's crying to. He doesn't

know who is listening to him, but he cries. He doesnt know that there is someone

who can hear him, or that person who hears him will help. But he cries. Something

inside him tells him that if he cries, his need will be fulfilled. The only one who

completely understands the needs of the baby is the mother. The mother feeds the

baby, clothes the baby, and cradles the baby. She soothes him, puts him to sleep,

nurtures and cares for him. The baby has no concept of relationships. Nor does he

understand what a mother is, what a father is, or even who God is. He is only

familiar with the sound of his mother's heart beat, her smell, and only the sounds

he heard before he was born, which are mostly of his parents, especially the

mother. He becomes attached to his mother because he spends all his time with

her, she feeds him, comforts him and takes care of him. This increases his bond to

a point that even for a minute she is absent, he starts to cry. He doesn't have the

words to call her, so he cries hoping she can hear him. God has intentionally

created the infant this way. He has made the mother the wasila for rizq, protection,

comfort and ease. She is His hand for rizq, His protection, His comfort. He(swt)

has provided rizq in the body of the mother and there is no equal to this rizq.

He(swt) compares His relationship to the momin like the relation of a mother to an

infant.

Now let's analyze how this can be translated into the fitrat of a momin and his

relationship with God. A TRUE momin, relies completely and absolutely in God to

feed him, clothe him, comfort him, provide him in time of need, but who is his

wasila this time? It is definitely the Imam. Although it is God who provides the

rizq, the comfort, the help and anything a momin needs for survival, but it is

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through His hand the Imam, that He(swt) provides for us in the best of manner.

The rizq for the soul, the knowledge and eeman is provided by the God appointed

Imam and there is no equal to that rizq. An ummah without the relationship with

their Imam is like an infant who is being raised and taken care of by someone else

except the mother. The Imam is our spiritual parent and anyone other than him will

never be able to take his place and provide the same nurture and support we need

for survival. God has made us weak like an infant that we may always be in need

and always remember Him and always cry to Him. He loves it when we cry and

beg for our needs, because He loves to provide and His appointed Imam loves to

take care of us on His behalf.

Can you convince a mother to abandon her child? Can you convince the Imam to

abandon his Shia? Sometimes a mother provides even before the infant cries and

sometimes the Imam intercedes even before a momin get's the chance to ask. How

ungrateful and ruined is the infant who grows up and is thankless to his mother for

her sacrifices, disobeys her and how ungrateful and ruined is one who abandons his

Imam and disobeys him. Look at the majority of the ummah who are dysfunctional

in their faith because they don't have a relationship with their Imam. They have

chosen other imams instead of those appointed by God, like infants who

deliberately reject their birth mothers and try to find comfort with a stranger. They

are just like the infant who grows up in foster homes, from one house to another.

Compare such an infant to the one who grows up in the care of his mother.

Have you ever seen a baby being fed and taken care of directly by God? The food

actually comes into its mouth from heaven and it miraculously changes the diaper,

from najasat to taharat and comforts himself? No. Then how can this ummah

assume that they can create a direct one on one relationship with God without a

wasila? Without their Imam? It is no wonder that it is dying a slow death even

though they are large in number. They are ridiculed and have zero respect in the

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eyes of the world but look who is victorious against these same influences. It is the

ummah who has recognized its Imam. They are thriving and strong against the

diseases and enemies and dangers of this world even though they are small in

number. Only the struggle of the Shia has brought fruitful results while the struggle

of those who have rejected their Imam has been in vain. If anyone thinks they can

be successful in this world against the harmful intentions and plots of the enemies

without the maarefah of the God appointed Imam, or even in the hereafter, then he

is absolutely misinformed. None have been successful in the past and none will be

in the future either.

Please refer to Dua Arafa of Imam Hussain(as)