سورة البینة - Commentary On The Holy Quran - The Chapter 098 - P 03

\"Some people consider certain things equal to God and love them just as one should love God. . . .\" (2 : 165) The Imam (a.s.) said, \"They, by Allah, are the friends of so () and so () whom they have taken as their Imams and not the Imams, Leaders ordained by God with Divine Authority, who are appointed for people as such.