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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Taqleed & Ijtihad Commentary by Imam Hasan al-Askari (as) Whether it is a treasure of Commentaries or a collection of Traditions; whether it is organized by the earlier intellectuals or collected by later authors; all such researches cannot be declared totally clean.

So even in those books of Islamic Knowledge that are generally depended on by all Muslims some people are able to find faults, such as, “this anecdote looks similar to Israeli stories; the narrators of this tradition do not come up to the mark; that tradition does not have solid proofs; there is some doubt in this tradition; and so on”.

However, in spite of all such faults no presentation has totally been discarded because if people start rejecting books for minor defects, there will be no such thing left as a book. This is why the scholars do not outrightly throw away someone’s hard work when they find some deficiency, rather they try to explain it.

What is surprising is that some people show such disdain towards the Commentary associated with Imam Hasan Askari (as) as if they will lose Islam by just looking at it or they will be left faith-less; even though what is mentioned in this book is also there in other collections.

There can only be one explanation - people belonging to a certain group have been clamoring for a long time that taqleed is not mentioned in the literature related to Shia belief system, whereas the Commentary under discussion clearly and emphatically recounts the issue of taqleed and Ijtihad in the sacred words of the virtuous Imam.

With this background in mind, it will not be unreasonable to say that the taqleed-denying folks intentionally or un-intentionally have not done justice to the under-discussion commentary. At this point we have 42 critiques of this book. Twelve of them have negative opinion on it and thirty favor it.