being diligent in research and attainment, avoiding the spendthrifts [who are] 1 the brothers of the devils,
who display knowledge for the sake of dispute, exaggeration, the acquisition of sins, and showing hostility. And we [mention] 2 that which is incumbent upon the Imam to establish [with] 3 , since no one advances over the group except after his knowledge is clarified and his [merit] 4 becomes manifest, and the scholars are the inheritors of the prophets and the legatees, and they are the lights of God among His creation and His proofs over His world. And that is because we have seen many of the people of the eastern lands and others who have taken for their group an Imam to whom they refer and rely upon in the religious matters that they return to, and upon whom they depend for the understanding of religion in dissolving and concluding. Thus, it is obligatory upon the Imam, when he is present in the council of judgment and justice, to order the captain to order the group before introducing the food,