

“The consensus today is on the four, and all have prohibited following others.” “It means that it is incumbent for whoever falls short of achieving the rank of absolute ijtihad to follow a particular madhhab.”Īgain, in Maraqi as-Sa’ud, Sidi Abdullah says, “ the necessity of binding to a specific madhhab, the have mentioned its obligation upon anyone falling short. “The earth will never be void of a mujtahid scholar until its very foundations shake.”

, ‘And ask the people of the reminder, if you yourselves do not know.’”īy using the line of Muhammad an-Nabigha above, I am in no way claiming that all ijtihad has been severed in every land how when says in Maraqi as-sa’ud: “It means that taqlid is an obligation on anyone who is not an absolute mujtahid, even if he has achieved the limited rank of ijtihad muqayyad. ”Ĭommenting on this line, said in Nashru al-bunud, has said in his Maraqi as-Sa’ud: “ is necessary for other than the one who has achieved the rank of absolute ijtihad. I shall make mention of all his prerequisites if Allah wills. I say in reply, that the following of qualified scholarship ( taqlid) is an obligation on anyone other than an absolute mujtahid.

As for my labelling him a deviant, it is only because he has desired to impose upon common people the precious rank of absolute independent reasoning, about which Muhammad an-Nabigha said,Īnd ijtihad in the land of the Moroccans, The western phoenix has taken to flight with it. In our reply to such a one, we make mention what the scholars of the methodological bases of Islamic jurisprudence ( usuli’un) and the Imams of jurisprudence themselves have said about such a matter. Would that he simply had claimed independent reasoning ( ijtihad) for himself only, and Allah is his reckoner, but abandoned the call of Muslims to leave that which is incumbent upon them. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.Īmongst the most important replies that I have given, is my reply concerning the one who has deviated to the point where he censures the importance of studying the branches of jurisprudence, and we seek refuge in Allah from the deviation of such a wandering deviant. Shaykh Murabit al Hajj’s Fatwa on Following For a complete list of the english books on maliki fiqh, please click on the links below:
