For instance, if the speaker is speaking from Allah -azwj then he has worshipped Allah -azwj and if the speaker is speaking from Iblis -la then he has worshipped Iblis -la .’’ All these Ahadith clearly demonstrate one has to follow the Divine Message, as stated in the Holy Quran and the Ahadith of Masomeen -asws , on the contrary, following a non-masoom is completely forbidden, as we learn from the following Ahadith: The Forbidden taqleed: Allah -azwj has Never Made compulsory for people to follow a non-masoom person, as there will be contradiction in their judgements, see for example, if there are two conflicting judgements, then one of them has to be wrong: ضَلَالَةً إِحْدَاهُمَا كَانَتْ إِلَّا دَعْوَتَانِ اخْتَلَفَتْ مَا (Amir-ul-Momineen -asws said) Where there are two differing claims then one of them is a straying .
[60] وعن ابن محبوب أو غيره، عن مثنى الحناط، عن أبي بصير قال: قلت لابي جعفر (عليه السلام): ترد علينا أشياء لا نجدها في الكتاب والسنة فنقول فيها برأينا، فقال: أما أنك إن أصبت لم توجر، وإن أخطأت كذبت على الله It has been narrated from Abu Mahboob or others from Mathni Al Hanaat from Abu Baseer that he said to Abu Ja’far -asws : ‘We want something from you but cannot find in the Book or Sunnah, shall we say it as per our judgement?’ He -asws replied: ‘No!
If you get it right you will get no reward for it, and if you get it wrong you will have ascribed a lie to Allah -azwj . [61] ’ وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ اتَّبِعُوا مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ قَالُوا بَلْ نَتَّبِعُ مَا وَجَدْنَا عَلَيْهِ آبَاءنَا أَوَلَوْ كَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى عَذَابِ السَّعِيرِ And when it is said to them: Follow what Allah has revealed, they say: Nay, we follow that on which we found our fathers. What!
Though the Shaitan calls them to the chastisement of the burning fire (31:21)! 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 Ja’far Al Sadiq -asws said: ‘ Beware of 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 did their taqleed (emulated them) in this and obeyed them , and they did not realise.