\u2019 [27] \n By redefining and reshaping the Divine...

\u2019 [27] \n By redefining and reshaping the Divine Commands (carving Usools and Faroos), a new \u2018Shia-Ijtihad\u2019 system was constructed by some Shia mullahs soon after the \u2018Grand Occulation\u2019 of the 12 th Imam -ajfj , which met with severe resistance from all Shias among the public as well as learned.\u00a0 Those days the word \u2018Ijtihad\u2019 was only used by Sunnis and was considered to be a forbidden \u2018concept\u2019 [28] among the followers of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws and Shia used to narrate Ahadith and act upon religion by taking Ahadith of the Infallible Imams -asws .

\n The first \u2018Shia-Mujtahid\u2019 who came forward, by amending the \u2018Sunni-Ijtihad\u2019 (first formulated by Shafai\u2019i\u2019), was Ibn-e-Junaid.

[29] Subsequent to receiving stern resistance but \u2018Shia-Ijtiahd\u2019 was gradually accepted and it\u2019s adoption served the purpose of bringing Shias closer to Sunnis system.\u00a0 That is how Sunni-Ijtihad became Shia!\u00a0 It then became the norm to criticise Sunnis\u2019 beliefs but to emulate them in Ijtihad and get a firm grip on the possibility of introducing one\u2019s own judgement on those aspects of religion which were fully covered and extensively discussed in both the Book and the Ahadith of -asws .

Hence, Shia Ijtihad was incepted, which after strong opposition found its way into the main stream twelve-Imami Shia community, as it is found in its present form.\u00a0 In the \u2018taqleed\u2019 books of Mujtahids, taqleed is offered on the Usool-e-Deen (Principles of religion: Salat, Zikaat\u2026.) but by declaring those as Faroo-e-Deen (brances of religion) while eliminating the most important and the soul of the principles: al-Wilayah!

\n A purely man-made system replacing a Divine system, where a Muqallid (follower of a Mujtahid) does not know the source of a fatwa and the Mujtahid is never ever sure of his judgement (as he writes \u2018Wallallah ho Alim bil sawab\u2019 [30] , hence, the consequences of \u2018a blind following a blind\u2019!