NECESSITY OF FIQH PART - 2

Consequently, the stalwarts of every age have accepted any one of the 4 Imams as the greatest Jurisprudents and have followed the rules extracted by them.
 
There are many verses in the Holy Quran and in the Hadith, which talk about Taqlid. The insinuations of the dissenters betray their own lack of understanding, otherwise nobody assumes that the legislators have ruled thus out of their own personal preferences. They in fact, have extracted and formulated rules from the Holy Quran and the Hadith.

If before objecting, the ‘non-followers’ (Ghair Muqallidin- those who refuse to follow any of the Imams) consider this, then I think no objection will remain, but what to say about false assumptions, (Surah Hujuraat-12)

There are 2 kinds of Taqleed

1. Taqleed Mutlaq i.e. Open-ended following.
2. Taqleed Shaqsi i.e. Particular following

Taqleed Mutlaq is to follow any of the Imams, as the need arises. Taqleed Shaqsi is to follow one particular Imam in all the affairs of life.

Evidence of Following.

Allah SWT orders Surah Nisa-59 Translation, “O believers, follow Allah SWT, follow the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and follow the leaders Here ‘leaders’ means the Imams and the Legislators, as has been said by Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas, Jabir bin Abdullah, Hasan Basri, Ata bin Abi Rabah, Ata bin saib, Abul A’aliyya (May Allah be well pleased with them). This verse allows establishes the compulsory nature of Taqleed.