This Is My Faith - Al-fatlawi, Ali - الصفحة ٢٣ - Religious Experts (Moqallad)

him. For most of the clerks, you cannot do the Taqlid from a deceased Mujtahid.

Anwar: It seems you forgot to explain the religious scholarship (Ijtihad).

Hasan: No, I saved it for the end to focus on it. The religious scholarship is the study of Shari’a to acquire the knowledge of the practices of the messenger of Allah (PBUH) concerning the branches of the Principles or Foru’ Al-Din, and they are not subjected to change regardless of time and place as the Imams (PBHT) emphasized: (Mohammad’s permitted acts – Halal – are permitted until the Judgment Day and his unpermitted acts – Haram – are unpermitted until the Judgment Day).

Anwar: I need more clarification, please!

Hasan: The clerk has to put enough and final efforts to find evidence from the Shari’a i.e. from the Noble Quran, the Honorable Sunna, consensus religious scholars, and reason, and be able to deduce decisions from that evidence. This person is called religious scholar (Mujtahid) and the work he does – search and deduction – is called religious scholarship (Ijtihad).