Can a lame person lead prayers?
The matter of Imamate is based on virtue and perfection. The more perfect the Imam, the better he is. It is permissible to put a less virtuous person in front of a more virtuous one, though it is disliked. The Imamate of a lame person is valid, although a group of jurists disliked his Imamate.
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