This is obvious from the wordings of a fatwa that it is...

This is obvious from the wordings of a fatwa that it is neither a Verses of Quran nor a Hadith of a Masoom -asws but rather a sugar coated pill for a busy Muqallid and a source of strangle-hold for the Mujtahid over his followers. However, the supports of taqleed would still argue that their Mujtahid get inspiration from Imam-e-Zaman -asws as being in the position of ‘Niab-e-Imam’- lets review this claim in Myth No 7!

Myth 7: Maraja is the ‘Niab-e-Imam’ [34] vicegerent of Imam-e-Zaman -asws specialist of the religious affairs (e.g., several PhDs in various disciplines of religious affairs, i.e., jurisprudence.! Fact 7: In a very simplistic way, a second-in-command or a deputy of a person is expected to possess not only similar qualities but also to have the same speciation. For example a heart surgeon’s deputy cannot be a butcher although he may be able to quite comprehensively dissect a human body.

Similarly a monkey or an owl can never be appointed as a second-in-command to an eye surgeon-otherwise it’s a recipe for disaster. We Shian-e-Ali -asws believe that our Masomeen -asws were the very first and most superior creation, in the form of ‘The Noor’, of Allah -azwj . On the contrary, human beings, were created from clay and came to this world without any trace of knowledge. We acquired knowledge and gained strength while growing but lost all of them, again, in our later part of lives.

As Allah -azwj Says: Has not man considered how We created him from a drop of semen? Yet he is an open adversary [35] ! and Anyone We grant long life to, We switch around within creation (return to childhood). Will they not use their reason?

[36] We take a further step to relinquish the remaining doubts regarding the position of a Mujtahid during the occultation of Imam-e-Zaman -asws , When we take a closer look at the history, we realise that the four ‘representatives’ of Imam-e-Zaman -asws never ever claim to be ‘Naib-e-Imam’ but were content to be called ‘couriers’ for Masoom Imam -asws , and one by one, before leaving this world, they appointed their own ‘Naib’ until the last one, who was told by Imam-e-Zaman -asws .

‘ O Ali bin Mohammed Samari, Allah -azwj may give His best reward to your grieving brothers on your death, which will occur within next six days. Thus, you better start packing up and do not nominate your deputy while making your last will. Now the major occultation will take place and Allah -azwj will not make me reappear until after a long time.