Why have we, the Shia Imamiyyah, bounded ourselves to follow the Jurists in every aspect of our lives?
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Why have we, the Shia Imamiyyah, bounded ourselves to follow the Jurists in every aspect of our lives?
The Shia Imamiyyah have, in the name of Taqlid, submitted to and obeyed everything their Jurists claimed without any proof that is compulsory to follow. They blindly follow them with the claim that the compulsory acts of the Shari’ah the Shia carry out will be invalid if they do not surrender themselves to following a Jurist.
Some have added that obedience to the Jurists is not only compulsory in religious matters, but in all matters, i.e. religious as well as worldly matters. This is how the innovation of Wilayat al Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) came into existence.
The poor Shia did not even ask themselves: Why should our actions be invalid if we follow what is in the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger, the fundamentals of Islam, and the clear Fiqh of Imam al Sadiq?
The Shia did not ask themselves: Why will our Salah, Sawm (Fasting), and Hajj be invalid when we read Salah, fast, and perform Hajj like Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam and the Muslims do? They did not ask themselves: Why should our actions be void if our leader is Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, Imam ‘Ali radiya Llahu ‘anhu, Imam al Sadiq and the pious predecessors from the Companions of Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam instead of our leaders being these people who call themselves “Ayatollahs” or similar titles; titles they have given themselves for which Allah subhanahu wa ta ‘ala has not revealed any proof?
We the Shia Imamiyyah accepted what the Jurists claim to be good, even though it opposes the Qur’an and Sunnah of Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, without asking them for proof, debating with them over what they claim, or judging them according to the Qur’an and Sunnah of Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
We blindly followed them and accepted the holiness, domination, and pride they claimed over us and referenced to themselves. We are living in an era of darkness and have not recognised what hope, light, logic, and proofs are, thus submitting to everything they made binding upon us.
The leaders of the Shia and the Jurists throughout history (ever since they began forcefully ruling over us, the Shia Imamiyyah) have taken advantage of our naïveté and our excessive love for the Ahlul Bayt. They thus brought about innovations, hollowness, and crookedness in our pure, pristine, and clear din as we mentioned earlier. Each of these serves their interests and concurrently affects us negatively; rather, completely destroys us.
I have enumerated the innovations and hollowness in my books: al Shia wa al Tashih [1] and ‘Aqa’id al Shia al Imamiyyah and do not want to repeat all of them here. However, very briefly, I wish to mention that each one of these innovations has been brought into our, the Shia Imamiyyah’s, belief system to place the yolk of submission around us, so that the Jurists may rule over us however they wish. At the end of this plea, I will highlight the link between the innovations and hollowness, and the enforcing of their dictatorship and tyranny over us. In that case, mere naïveté did not play this adequate role. In addition, the Jurists took advantage of the love the Shia have for the Ahlul Bayt together with the innovations they brought about in the belief system, making the Shia into a moldable tool in the hands of the Jurists which they sacrifice for their goals in the field of turmoil and again in the field of tribulations.
The Jurists alone did not play this important role of distorting the Shia from their correct, firm, proverbial stance in following the Fiqh of Imam al Sadiq. Rather, the Jurists had another wing which supplemented their strength: the narrators and scholars of Hadith and Qur’an—who attributed fabricated and false narrations and ahadith to our noble Imams which supported the innovations, hollowness, and crookedness they entered into the Shia belief system for their sake—as well as interpretations of Qur’anic verses according to their desires, which served the interests of the Jurists. With these two wings, the Jurists were able to hold the reins of authority and supremacy over the Shia throughout history.
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[1] An English translation of this book can be downloaded from https://archive.org/details/
BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents
Why have we, the Shia Imamiyyah, bounded ourselves to follow the Jurists in every aspect of our lives?
The Shia Imamiyyah have, in the name of Taqlid, submitted to and obeyed everything their Jurists claimed without any proof that is compulsory to follow. They blindly follow them with the claim that the compulsory acts of the Shari’ah the Shia carry out will be invalid if they do not surrender themselves to following a Jurist.
Some have added that obedience to the Jurists is not only compulsory in religious matters, but in all matters, i.e. religious as well as worldly matters. This is how the innovation of Wilayat al Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) came into existence.
The poor Shia did not even ask themselves: Why should our actions be invalid if we follow what is in the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger, the fundamentals of Islam, and the clear Fiqh of Imam al Sadiq?
The Shia did not ask themselves: Why will our Salah, Sawm (Fasting), and Hajj be invalid when we read Salah, fast, and perform Hajj like Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam and the Muslims do? They did not ask themselves: Why should our actions be void if our leader is Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, Imam ‘Ali radiya Llahu ‘anhu, Imam al Sadiq and the pious predecessors from the Companions of Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam instead of our leaders being these people who call themselves “Ayatollahs” or similar titles; titles they have given themselves for which Allah subhanahu wa ta ‘ala has not revealed any proof?
We the Shia Imamiyyah accepted what the Jurists claim to be good, even though it opposes the Qur’an and Sunnah of Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, without asking them for proof, debating with them over what they claim, or judging them according to the Qur’an and Sunnah of Rasulullah salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
We blindly followed them and accepted the holiness, domination, and pride they claimed over us and referenced to themselves. We are living in an era of darkness and have not recognised what hope, light, logic, and proofs are, thus submitting to everything they made binding upon us.
The leaders of the Shia and the Jurists throughout history (ever since they began forcefully ruling over us, the Shia Imamiyyah) have taken advantage of our naïveté and our excessive love for the Ahlul Bayt. They thus brought about innovations, hollowness, and crookedness in our pure, pristine, and clear din as we mentioned earlier. Each of these serves their interests and concurrently affects us negatively; rather, completely destroys us.
I have enumerated the innovations and hollowness in my books: al Shia wa al Tashih [1] and ‘Aqa’id al Shia al Imamiyyah and do not want to repeat all of them here. However, very briefly, I wish to mention that each one of these innovations has been brought into our, the Shia Imamiyyah’s, belief system to place the yolk of submission around us, so that the Jurists may rule over us however they wish. At the end of this plea, I will highlight the link between the innovations and hollowness, and the enforcing of their dictatorship and tyranny over us. In that case, mere naïveté did not play this adequate role. In addition, the Jurists took advantage of the love the Shia have for the Ahlul Bayt together with the innovations they brought about in the belief system, making the Shia into a moldable tool in the hands of the Jurists which they sacrifice for their goals in the field of turmoil and again in the field of tribulations.
The Jurists alone did not play this important role of distorting the Shia from their correct, firm, proverbial stance in following the Fiqh of Imam al Sadiq. Rather, the Jurists had another wing which supplemented their strength: the narrators and scholars of Hadith and Qur’an—who attributed fabricated and false narrations and ahadith to our noble Imams which supported the innovations, hollowness, and crookedness they entered into the Shia belief system for their sake—as well as interpretations of Qur’anic verses according to their desires, which served the interests of the Jurists. With these two wings, the Jurists were able to hold the reins of authority and supremacy over the Shia throughout history.
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[1] An English translation of this book can be downloaded from https://archive.org/details/