"Verily We, (and) We (alone) give life unto the dead, and We write down what they have sent before them and (even) their footprints (which they leave behind them): And everything have We confirmed into a *Manifesting Imam (Guide)."
(Holy Qur'an Surah Yasin:12, S.V. Mir Ahmed Ali's translation).

*Said the Holy Prophet: "He who died while he recognized not the Imam of the Age, certainly died he the death of ignorance."
(Note from Holy Qur'an, S.V. Mir Ahmed Ali's translation, p.1318).