Imam had been a character of Islam who seemed returned to the world in our era with a miracle until after the vicious victory of the Umayyads who shed the blood of martyrs of Ahl al-Bayt led Ali's army. Imam remained such bullet of Islam which was shot from the early era of pure Islam and sat on the heart of the 20th century.
(Mohammad Hassanin Heikal, a famous writer and journalist of the Arab world)