If you are still not convinced then look at another tradition...

If you are still not convinced then look at another tradition: AL KAFI - H 49, Ch. 2, h6 Ahmad ibn Idris has narrated from Muhammad ibn Hassa’n from Idris ibn al- Hassan from abu Ishaq al-Kindi from Bashir al-Dahhan from abu ‘Abd Allah, recipient of divine supreme covenant, who has said the following: “O Bashir, there is nothing good in those of our people (followers) who do not acquire good understanding of religion (Fiqh).

If someone among them may not have good understanding of religion he needs to ask those who oppose us. When he needs them they lead him astray without him even realising.” I think there should not be any doubt that remains about this matter now.

If you wish to be counted among the honoured ones, or if you want to be regarded as one who follows the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) and the Imams (a.s.) and if you do not wish to enter the door ignorance, then acquire religious knowledge and act on it, no less no more. FROM WHOM SHOULD BE ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE Let it be clear that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) did not tell us to acquire knowledge, rather he told us to seek it. Now it becomes necessary for us to find out whom to seek it from.

The commentator then said that what the Imam (a.s.) is saying is that knowledge should be acquired from the Ahl Ul Bayt (a.s.) in whose houses the revelation came down. Knowledge sought from other sources would be incomplete and weak. In another tradition the Commander of the Faithful (a.s.) has said: ‘Knowledge has been safeguarded with its inheritors and you have been Commanded to seek the whole of it from those that have it (The Ahl Ul Bayt (a.s.)).

In another tradition Imam Ja’far Al Sadiq (a.s.) has said: ‘The knowledge that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) has left, we the Ahl Ul Bayt (a.s.) are its inheritors’. WHO ARE THE SCHOLARS? The term ‘knowledge’ is an attribute which mean ‘to know’, and ‘ignorance’ means ‘not to know’. People of understanding know that the majority are normally in the opposition. Two opposite things cannot co-exist at the same place e.g.