In this issue and others like it, no disagreement should have been imagined, but God has made this disagreement a mercy for His servants and an expansion of what He has entrusted them with in worshiping Him. But the jurists of our time prohibited and restricted people from imitating scholars what the Sharia has expanded upon them. They said to the imitator, if he is a Hanafi school of thought, do not ask for Shafi’i’s permission in what matters. It has befallen you and likewise to every one of them. This is one of the greatest calamities in religion and hardship. And God says, “He has not placed upon you any hardship in religion.” The Sharia has established the rule of the mujtahid for himself and for those who imitate him. The jurists of our time refused that and claimed that this leads to tampering with the religion. This is the utmost ignorance on their part, so it is not the matter, by God. They also claimed, while admitting to themselves, that they are not mujtahids, nor did