But in another Hadith...

But in another Hadith, while explaining the meanings of the Verses: Hostile working, feels the heat of the hot fire (88:3-4) Imam Abu Abd Allah -asws says: فَكُلُّ نَاصِبٍ مُجْتَهِدٍ فَعَمَلُهُ هَبَاءٌ شِيعَتُنَا يَنْطِقُونَ بِنُورِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ مَنْ يُخَالِفُهُم‏ Everyone who is hostile to ‘Aimmah -asws and yet is a Mujtahid (works hard) his deeds scatter like dust.

[22] So anyone working hard on a mission has been clasified as a ‘Mujtahid’ in the Ahadith of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws regardless of the purpose of his struggle that could be for a noble or an evil cause.

The Ones Who Issue Fatwa cannot be a ‘Faqih’ Briefly, from the principles of Ijtihad, a fatwa is issued in the absence of a Hadith related to an Islamic issue, so all those who issue a fatwa cannot be classified as a true ‘Faqih’, since they attempt to extract the meanings of Islamic rulings while employing the ‘man-made’ system of Ijtihad, which consist of, as stated before, the ‘Book’, the ‘Sunnah’, ‘Ijma’ (consensus), ‘Aql’ (reason), ‘Qiyas’ (analogy), whereas a Faqih will never use such tools other than what the Holy Prophet -saww had left behind, the ‘Book and the Sunnah’.

What Masomeen -asws Say about the taqleed (of a non-masoom)? و قال ع إياكم و التقليد فإنه من قلد في دينه هلك إن الله تعالى يقول اتَّخَذُوا أَحْبارَهُمْ وَ رُهْبانَهُمْ أَرْباباً مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ فلا و الله ما صلوا لهم و لا صاموا و لكنهم أحلوا لهم حراما و حرموا عليهم حلالا فقلدوهم في ذلك فعبدوهم و هم لا يشعرون The Holy Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq -asws said: ‘ You and taqleed ? Whosoever adorns this in religion is destroyed .

Surely, Allah -azwj has Said: ‘They took their Rabbis and Monks as their Lords besides Allah (9:31) , No, by Allah -azwj ! They did no pray nor fast but they made permissible which was forbidden to them and made the forbidden permissible. They emulated (did taqleed) of them in this and obeyed them and they did not recognise (that they have worshiped them). [23] Who Should Shias Consult in Regard to Newly Emerging Issues?

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