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(3) When a blind leads a blind: (4) Narrate Hadeeth amongst yourselves for they will give you salvation (5) The specialist phobia: (6) One’s should Strive Hard to Act on the Divine Commands: Taqleed and Ijtihaad Download PDF Abu Ja’far -asws said (in a reply to arriving at a best judgement-fatwa): If you get it right you will get no reward for it, but if you get it wrong you will have ascribed a lie to Allah -azwj .

[1] ’ Also Amir-ul-Momineen Ali -asws Ibn Abi Talib -asws says in the Hadith-e-Tariq [2] : How could Allah -azwj Make obligatory upon His servants the obedience of the one who is veiled from the mysteries of the Heavens and the Earth. Chapter One: Summary to the Concepts of Ijtihad and Taqleed Summary: The term Ijtihad, according to the Arabic dictionary, is derived from `juhd’, which means employment of an effort or endeavour in performing a certain activity.

The principles of ijtihad in accordance with Sunni as well as Shia school of thoughts, put together, are: the Book, the Sunnah, Ijma` (consensus), `Aql (reason), Qiyas (analogy), …and so on. [3] Ijtihad (to strive) in religion has been used by Sunni Muslims for a very long time, from the era of Holy Prophet Mohammed -saww until today.

During this period, this technique [4] which facilitates one to form an opinion and issue a decree (fatawa), was completely rejected and disliked by the twelve successors of the Holy Prophet -saww , specially, when it was practised, out of necessity, by the Sunni Muslims.

The companions of the Holy Prophet -saww started making use of it soon after taking into their hands the reign of Government in order to justify some of their unIslamic actions, but later on it was extensively used by the imams of Ahly e Sunnah (Sunni) not only to issue Fatwas to public but also to support and cover up the mistakes of the rulers who started distorting the true picture of Islam.

At the same time, -asws (The Divine Imams -asws ) declared Ijtihad, as an evil concept, which was used by evil spirits to gather support to refute Divine Commands, the first one who used Ijtihad was Iblis, (7:12) [5] as per from the following Hadith: The First Who Formed an Opinion (Ijtihad) was Iblis: علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن أحمد بن عبدالله العقيلي، عن عيسى بن عبدالله القرشي قال: دخل أبوحنيفة على أبي عبدالله عليه السلام فقال له: يا أبا حنيفة !