Know that Adam was not designated for caliphate except by will, and if He had willed, He would place it among those of His creation who designated it. We would say that it is not valid for it to be except in the name of the perfect human, and if He had combined it in other than human creatures, that would have been the same as the perfect human, for He is the caliph upon whom He was created. If you say, then the entire world. A great human being, so it would have been sufficient. We said that if he had been appointed as the caliph, then he would not have been responsible for it. There must be one who combines the images of the world and the image of truth. This association will have a caliph in the world for the sake of the apparent name. This imam is expressed by the great human being who combines both images. Some of the world is greater than others. Man, not in the aggregate, for in the perfect man is what is not in the one individual of the world, so it is by will, except in t