This Is My Faith - Al-fatlawi, Ali - الصفحة ١٦٤ - Is Infallibility Against Free Choice?
are infallible to do nothing in error when it comes to implementing the Shari’a and normal affairs.
Anwar: what is the proof?
Hasan: It is self-evident. If we assume that he forgets and make mistakes, he cannot lead or guide a community; he cannot command people to be good and to do good. This is simply because a person who can possibly do something in error cannot be an example or model; this is simply because people will doubt him when they see this inconsistency between his words and his deeds. So, he needs to be infallible not only in delivering his message but also in his everyday life affairs so that his followers can believe him and trust him with their own everyday life affairs as well.
Aside from that, there are Verses from the Noble Quran refer to this fact that a prophet is a ‘witness’ for or against the people. So, how can he possibly be a witness when he is exposed to forgetting and making mistakes?
Anwar: Can you mention these Holy Verses?
Hasan: Yes. The Glorious Allah says:
(Thus We have appointed you a middle nation, that ye may be witnesses against mankind, and that the