What is the role of the Imam (mgehr)??

It is something infra dig, if we request Imam [Mahdi (mgehr)] to give us something rather than himself [We’ d better request him to be deserved to visit him, and to lead us to perfection and to be satisfied by God]!

What is the role of the Imam (mgehr)??

Is he a mediator [to fulfill our wishes and] to gift us bread [livelihood], wives and children??

These can be fulfilled via other mediators too!

He [the imam (mgehr)] is a medium for reaching, being directed and moving [toward God].

We are expected to request him the direction.

 

^{Safai Haeri, “You will come”, P. 86}