Imamate and Wilayat from the Viewpoints of Martyr Motahhri and Iqbal Lahori

According to Martyr Motahhri, Imam holds all the positions of the Prophet except the status of receiving revelation. Motahhari lists such qualities as infallibility, knowledge, higher excellence, courage, justice, morality and similar good character traits for holy Imams. He believes that they are ordained by God. He divides wilayat into positive and negative and each of these two into subdivisions. The positive and constructive wilayat is of love, Imamate, leadership, ontological control over the course of events and Motahhari maintains that the holy Imams enjoy all four types of Wilayat. To him the negative wilayat belongs to Satan and Satanic forces In explaining the necessity of Imamate Allam Iqbal Lahori as one of the great Sunni intellectuals drew on rational argument and held the most important positions and functions of Imamate to be the guidance of Community, unity of the Muslim nations and prevention of society from anarchy. He regards courage, justice, honesty as the most significant qualities of Imams who are to be chosen, in his view, through election. Unlike Motahhri, Iqbal defines the wilayat of Ahl al-Bayt in terms of love and rejects other types of it.