Actually I think I made my point clear and you grasp it very well ....and I wonder how you are gonna explain it to yourself ....the point is no one except God could appoint .... it's what happened to all 124000 prophets from Adam to Khatam ... that's why the idea of
Saqifah is not appealing ...
2:124: And [mention, O Muhammad], when Abraham was tried by his Lord with commands and he fulfilled them. [ Allah ] said, "Indeed, I will make you a leader for the people." [Abraham] said, "And of my descendants?" [ Allah ] said, "My covenant does not include the wrongdoers."
19:49 : So when he had left them and those they worshipped other than Allah , We gave him Isaac and Jacob, and each [of them] We made a prophet.
2:30 And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority." They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?" Allah said, "Indeed, I know that which you do not know."
32:24 And We made from among them leaders guiding by Our command when they were patient and [when] they were certain of Our signs.
even prophet of God Moses (pbuh) ain't allowed to appoint an assistance for himself God did that:
25:35 And We had certainly given Moses the Scripture and appointed with him his brother Aaron as an assistant.
As God says:
33:21 : There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often.
If we accept that the prophet (pbuh) didn't appoint anyone as successor , base on aforementioned verse not appointing was excellent pattern for Muslims to not do it in the future .... while if we take it vise versa which means what Omar and Abo Bakr did back then in Saqifah to appoint a successor for prophet (pbuh) and take it as an excellent pattern for the Ummah and its future then we should conclude that prophet (pbuh) was wrong in not appointing anyone .....which one is true? prophet pattern or Omar pattern? or prophet (pbuh) indeed appointed a successor ...
If you were able to choose the first Imam ( while God and his prophet couldn't or didn't think of it and left people on their own ) then please choose the last one and bring justice into the world once for good. as it seems God is busy ....
By the way the reason why his arrival has taken too long ain't about punishing humans , what do you think of God? an angry moody creatures that would behave like a child? the point is as far as we don't realize Imamat and its importance in the religion (Abraham had been already a prophet but as God says : Abraham was tried by his Lord with commands and he fulfilled them. [ Allah ] said, "Indeed, I will make you a leader for the people ..... ) and don't demand it by you heart nothing would happen ... what people did to 11 Imams? didn't they kill behead and poison all of them one by one ...?