The duties of The System of The Advocates

The duties of The System of The Advocates (1)   [of the Shiites’ Imams]

By examining historical evidences, we conclude that the system of advocates didn’t just aim at collecting: the five predicable, Zakāt2, charity and vows. But for some reasons, acquisition of property was in relation with political issues.

[Here are] some of the duties of this organization:

Guiding the Shiites,

Debating with the opponents,

Execution of endowments,

Aiding the people in need

Interacting between Imam [Mahdī (mgehr)] and the people,

Receiving, delivering, and distributing funds,

And [finally], the invisible observation of the political situation.

 

 

1-     In the Minor Occultation of Imam Zamān (mgehr), there were some people named as advocates who delivered the people’s certain letters and ordinances to the Imam (mgehr). On the other hand, Islamic Society would get orders, guidelines, claims or particulars of him, through the advocates.

2-     Zakat literally means “purity, growth, blessing, eulogy

and zakat of the property means its purification.

In Islamic teachings, zakat is defined as “the title

of a financial right in the property that becomes obligatory when the

property reaches a taxable limit” As a condition,

in the case of cow, sheep, goat, camel, gold, and silver, the person has to

own them for eleven months and pay the zakat at the end of the twelfth

month.

 

Collection date:

7/ 14/ 2017

History of the Age of Abstaining, P. 167- 157