This Is My Faith - Al-fatlawi, Ali - الصفحة ٢٢٤ - the Branches of the Pillars?
Religious experts believe that this Holy Verse was revealed for the sake of the Imamate and that it clearly shows its importance and place. We can also use this following Holy Verse to reason it out:
(Forbidden unto you for food are carrion and blood and swine flesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by the goring of horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make lawful by the death stroke, and that which hath been immolated unto idols. And forbidden is it that ye swear by the diving arrows. This is an abomination. This day are those who disbelieve in despair of ever harming your religion; so fear them not, fear by hunger, not by will, to sin: for him. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful)٥;٣.
This Holy Verse and many other Hadith refer to the guardianship and the Imamate of Amir Al-Mu’menin (PBUH). The Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said: “Whoever dies without knowing the Imam of their time, they die in a pre-Islamic state of ignorance”. This