but they took that as an imitation and they did not know that that is an argument against them, not for them, and among them is he who appointed himself as a master and an Imam and apprenticed disciples and entered them into this matter and deluded them that they became believers and they already entered in the total of the Shu'aybiyyin and became from the victorious party, and far away, far away, and that is by what their souls enticed for them, so patience is beautiful and God is the One sought for help and upon Him is the reliance, and who does not know how he guides himself upon the path, how does he guide other than him upon the Gnosis of investigation?

The Attributes of the Gnosis-Knowing Scholars

[2] As it was narrated on the authority of our master, the Commander of the Faithful, transcended his might, that he said: "Whoever appointed himself as an imam, then upon him first to begin with the teaching of himself, then he begins with the teaching of other than him, and let his disciplining be by his biography before his disciplining by his tongue,