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The Issue of Taqleed – Blind-Following

THE ISSUE OF TAQLEED

The word taqleed is a derivative of Qalaadah, and the linguistic meaning of qalaadah is to wear a collar that a dog wears around its neck.

The meaning of taqleed in terminology is to act upon the opinion of an Imaam from the Ummah without knowing the evidence. So the muqallid is the one who does taqleed.

THE BLAMEWORTHINESS OF TAQLEED

 The blameworthiness of taqleed is that a person singles out a particular Imaam to follow and he accepts all of his opinions and ijtihaad as the religion when his opinions or ijtihaad is not supported by any one of the sharee’ah evidences of the Qur’aan, hadeeth or unanimous agreement (ijmaa).

THE PROBLEMS OF TAQLEED

 This type of taqleed keeps the muqallid unaware and away from a great majority of the religion. It is a reality that there is not a single Imaam whose every opinion and thought agree or conform to a particular standard of the sharee’ah evidences.

So where there is a possibility of him being correct, then there is also the possibility of him making a mistake or error.

So when this is the affair then we will not take the opinion of the Imaam in which he has erred; nor shall we embrace it. On the other hand the muqallid will consider this mistake to be part of his religion and he will be erring in this, yet there is no doubt that all the knowledge of Islaam is not encompassed in the chest of one man.