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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Logic For Islamic Rules Why Should We Do Taqlid (follow a Mujtahid) in Religious Problems? When a person comes to this world, he does not have knowledge about anything. That is why there is no other way except that he learns from the experience of others. This is the reason why a person whose life is full of ups and downs requires knowledge at every step.

Basically, life is based on two main pillars and they are to know and then to implement them and for implementation knowledge is necessary. That is why the lifes first step starts with knowledge. This is the stage when a persons natural instincts help him and life opens the way of perfection and happiness for him. This instinct is called derivation and following.

As we all know that a child, who because of the movements from his inner self learns from his parents how to talk, the manners of sitting and standing and in this way passes one stage of life from the other. And as the child grows he learns and gains from knowledge and thinking of others and tries to pay attention to following them. Slowly he becomes aware about the existence of this world and then starts performing his duties.

But here it is important to mention a basic thing that blindly following the views and manners of anyone completely is not correct. Rather following (Taqlid) is of different types: **(1) An ignorant person following another ignorant person ** It is as clear as the sun that this type of Taqlid not only does not make a persons life happy, but makes his life miserable. Unfortunately in our society many such people are present who follow other peoples ethics and their way of life blindly.

They copy other people in dressing eating and drinking, naming their children and in other spheres of life. They also follow the prohibited things, false beliefs and bad ethics under the attractive titles, without understanding them although the evil of this type of following is clearly evident. Regarding this type of Taqlid it is said: They say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

[Surah Zukhruf 43:22] The Quran has severely refuted this logic and denounced those people. **(2) An Aalim (learned) following an ignorant person ** It is clear that this type of Taqlid is worse than the first and it is more dangerous, because it is expected from a learned person that he should act according to his knowledge in order to carry out his responsibilities.