The Holy Imam of the Time is the Living House of God

God says: “And when We made the House a place of reward and peace for mankind (saying): Take as the place of prayer where Ibrahim stood.” (2:125). Another taw’il of this verse is that just as, by His command the Ka’bah, the House of God, is a place of reward and peace externally, so internally the Imam of the time as the House of God, is the means of every kind of reward and peace. This means that the (holy) Imam is the spiritual Qiblah, towards whom the attention of the heart is necessary in every good deed and that is the way of attaining reward. 

 

You can see that the reward is mentioned first and then comes peace. The wisdom in this is that, the mu’mins cross the stages of reward and good first, by obeying the Holy Imam and then, as a result, they enter into the light of his spirituality. And it is he who is God’s inner House in which there is only peace and no fear or danger of any kind. Just as in the external world, the station of Ibrahim is in a place where there is a stone, similarly in the internal world, in the luminosity of the Manifest Imam, there is a Pearl of Intellect, which we have been commanded to reach to attain the wisdoms of salat or namaz.” (Source: Fruit of Paradise, pages 119-120)