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After the burial of the Prophet (pbuh), when the other Companions started politics and formed a community and declared themselves caliphs, Imam Ali (a.s.) would have used those policies to gather people around him if he wanted, and he was much better at politics than them, but for Ali (a.s.) he could not reach power. , the principle of how to get to power was important, he gave FREEDOM to the society to see how much they were bound to the will of the Prophet (pbuh). He created the exam conditions and very few people could pass that exam, others chose the wrong way.