Mawlana Ali(a.s.) :

سلوني قبل أن تفقدوني

“Ask me before you lose me.”

In Preamble of our Constitution of our Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims and this is Paragraph B.

“In accordance with Shia doctrine,tradition and interpretation of history, the Holy Prophet (S.A.S.) designated and appointed his cousin and son-in-law Hazarat Mawlana Ali Amiru-l- Mu’minin (‘’Alayhi-s-salām), to be the first Imam to continue the Ta’wil and Taclim of Allah’s final message and to guide the murids, and proclaimed that the Imamat should continue by heredity through Hazrat Mawlana Ali (A.S.) and his daughter Hazrat Bibi Fatima-az- Zahra, Khātun-i-Jannat (‘’Alayhā-s salām).”

1998-The Constitution of The Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims