Therefore, His favor upon the family of Muhammad, who is the best of His Prophets, is natural and even more fitting. This is despite the fact that the family of Muhammad is, in essence, part of the family of Ibrahim, and Allah has spoken of the continuation of His governance within them as the pure offspring and descendants of Ibrahim, saying: ﴿وَجَعَلَهَا كَلِمَةً بَاقِيَةً فِي عَقِبِهِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ﴾[1]; “And He made it a lasting word among his descendants so that they might return,” and: ﴿وَجَعَلْنَا فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهِ النُّبُوَّةَ وَالْكِتَابَ﴾[2]; “And We placed Prophethood and the Book within his descendants,” and: ﴿وَإِذِ ابْتَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ رَبُّهُ بِكَلِمَاتٍ فَأَتَمَّهُنَّ ۖ قَالَ إِنِّي جَاعِلُكَ لِلنَّاسِ إِمَامًا ۖ قَالَ وَمِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِي ۖ قَالَ لَا يَنَالُ عَهْدِي الظَّالِمِينَ﴾[3]; “And when his Lord tested Ibrahim with some words, then he fulfilled them, He said: ‘I appoint you as an Imam for people!’ He said: ‘And also my descendants?’ He said: ‘My covenant does not reach the oppressors,’” in the sense that it reaches the pure ones among them, and it is clear that the Ahl al-Bayt of Muhammad are the only ones among the existing descendants of Ibrahim whose purity Allah has declared.

Based on this, it is clear that the invitation to their sovereignty is not considered an invitation toward any sect; rather, it is an invitation to the original and perfect Islam, which arises from definitive rational and religious requirements and is the only path to the realization of Allah’s sovereignty over the world. Likewise, I am certainly not a Shia or a Sunni in the commonly understood sense, but I am an example of a truth-seeking Muslim who calls to Islam and, in this regard, follows the example of Ibrahim (peace be upon him), about whom Allah Almighty has said: ﴿مَا كَانَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ يَهُودِيًّا وَلَا نَصْرَانِيًّا وَلَكِنْ كَانَ حَنِيفًا مُسْلِمًا وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ﴾[4]; “Ibrahim was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a Muslim truth-seeker, and he was not among the polytheists.”