Click for previous lesson. Our discussion on a’lamiyyah reached its conclusion in the last lesson, and we said it is only one of the criteria for selecting a jurisconsult, not that it is obligatory to follow the most-learned. A muqallid looks into various different factors when choosing a jurisconsult, some of which are backed up … Read more

Click for previous lesson. Our discussion is on the obligation of doing taqlīd of the most-learned. The conclusion we arrived at is that there is no evidence that can with certainty establish for us such an obligation. However, ‘almaiyyah is a preferred quality, that a muqallid should factor in when they choose a jurisconsult. But … Read more

Click for previous lesson. We went through some of the evidence for those who believe it is not permissible to refer to a non-a’lam in taqlīd, and that one must refer to the most learned. We will now look at one of their other proofs. Fatwa of the most learned is closer to reality The third … Read more

Click for previous lesson. Our discussion is regarding imitating a jurisconsult who is not the most-learned. In other words, if there is a jurisconsult who is the most learned, can one imitate someone other than him or not. We discussed the arguments for those who deem it permissible, some of them were not too weak, … Read more

Click for previous lesson. We are discussing the necessity of following the most-learned juristconsult. Sayyid Kho’ī says that a verdict of a jurist is from the same category of a solitary report and the narrations that permit taqlīd imply ta’yīn, not takhyīr. However, we said in fact they imply takhyīr, and the itlāq of these narrations … Read more

Click for previous lesson. In some areas of the text and in the footnotes, I have made use of the work A Glossary of Shiite Methodology of Jurisprudence, by Alireza Hodaee, to denote legal terminology, and have given reference to the page number from this work in the footnotes. Our discussion was on doing taqlīd … Read more