Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī · Reason of occultation of the Imam from his followers
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قلنا: ما أحلنا في سبب الغيبة عن الأولياء إلا على معلوم يظهر موضع التقصير فيه وإمكان تلافيه لأنه غير ممتنع أن يكون من المعلوم من حاله أنه متى ظهر له الإمام قصر في النظر في معجزة فإنما أتى في ذلك لتقصيره الحاصل في العلم بالفرق بين المعجز والممكن والدليل من ذلك والشبهة ولو كان من ذلك على قاعدة صحيحة لم يجز أن يشتبه عليه معجز الإمام عند ظهوره له فيجب عليه تلافي هذا التقصير واستدراكه.
We will say: The reason for hiding from the devotee is nothing, but the known fact of his shortcoming and his capacity for its recompense, because it is possible that it should be known from the condition of the devotee that when the Imam appears to him, he will not mull over the miracle that will be with the Imam, which will be a misdoing of his own, leading to lack of discrimination between miracles and ordinary events and a proof and a doubt.
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