Reports of the Emissaries of Imam (a.s) during the period of occultation

Before we begin discussion about the Special Deputies of the Imam during the period of occultation, we would mention some reports in brief, which are restricted to each of the Imams and which are related to the management of their affairs. In the same way, we will also mention reports about those who were praised and who followed the right path as well as those who were condemned and who did not follow a right faith, so that we may become conversant with the circumstances of their lives.

“Our servants and our caretakers are the most evil of Allah’s creation.”

I wrote to the Master of the Age (a.s) that my family was abusing and rebuking me with the tradition narrated from your forefathers (a.s), “Our servants and our caretakers are the most evil of Allah’s creation.” The holy Imam wrote back, “Regards to you. Do you not read what Allah, the High, has said? “And We made between them and the towns, which We had blessed (other) towns to be easily seen…” (34:18)