It is because of this that it becomes possible for a person...

It is because of this that it becomes possible for a person to be chosen as a leader due not so much to his aptitude in jurisprudence as much as to his better management skills. In lieu of this reality, the separation of the offices of the marji and the leader becomes a reasonable, and in some instances, necessary expedient. With regards to the second question (i.e.

whether the leadership and the marjaiyyat is confined to one person or is open to more than one person) and assuming that a separation of the two is possible, we must remember that when someone refers to the marji he does so because the marji is a specialist in the field of law and the one who refers, is not. This being the case, it is possible that there be numerous specialists in society. Moreover, this is something…