From Jizat al-Fustat, Saturday 5 Jumada al-Ula, 1377 H.

From Jizat al-Fustat, Saturday 5 Jumada al-Ula, 1377 H. December 7, 1957 Mahmud Abu Riyyah Abu Umar and other eminent ulama' said: There is unanimous concurrence among people that the imitator can never be counted among men of knwoledge, and that knowledge can only be realized through an evidence (dalil).

Commenting on this saying, Ibn al-Qayyim said: "These two unanimities included dropping the bigot to desire and blind imitators from among the elite of ulama', as those who being superior to them acquired the qualifications to be inheritors of the prophets. The ancestors used to use the word jahil (illiterate, ignorant) for the imitator, since they…