What is a believer’s religious obligation when dealing with someone who claims to be an agent of Imam Mahdi (at)?
Believers must exercise caution and verify any matters concerning the Imam because false claims and actions based on supernatural suppositions cause disturbance and strife in the era of his occultation. The appearance of the Imam will be coupled with an indisputable proof and clear evidence from God, such that the believer will know with certainty, and there will be nothing obscured on the path to salvation. Therefore, anyone who preempts this will only go astray. In these times, there is no salvation except to turn to the scholars who have been tested and who have earned their position of knowledge, service, and piety, and a complete adherence to the rules of the sacred sharia and resorting to lofty ethics.