There are those who have said that if the actions of that...
There are those who have said that if the actions of that servant of God were to be repeated on the Day of the Resurrection, Moses would still object to them and criticise them, unless, by that time, he were to become aware of the hidden reasons behind them.
Moses said to the servant of God: "Shall I follow you so that you may teach me, of what you have been taught, right judgement." "Assuredly you will not be able to bear with me patiently." Then he explained the reason very clearly: "And how should you bear patiently what you have never encompassed in your knowledge?" Moses said: "Yet you will find me, if Allah will, patient, and I shall not rebel against you in anything." Moses did not say that he would be patient whether he discovered the secret of the matter or not.
He merely said that he hoped he would have that patience. Of course, this patience did exist within Moses as long as he understood the reason for things. Then the servant of God wanted to have something more definite from him; that, even if he did not discover the reason for what had happened, he would remain silent and not protest until the time came for him to explain.
"Then, if you follow me, do not question me on anything until I myself introduce the mention of it to you." (117:6670) Here, the verse does not say if Moses accepted; it only says that after this they both set out together and continued till the end of the story which we all know. At any rate, I wanted to show that the ignorant person's taqlid of the learned should not be blind allegiance.
The unlawful kind of taqlid between one who is ignorant and one who has knowledge is that kind in which unquestioning obedience exists, which takes some such form as: "an ignorant person cannot quarrel with a learned person; we don't understand, perhaps the duties imposed by the shari`a necessitate its being like this." I have mentioned this story as evidence and corroboration for what was in the hadith of the Imam alSadiq. Previous…