rejection of Taqleed in Ijtehad was so important that Maula Ali sacrificed his chance to become Caliph after Syedna Omer on this very point; a message was thus conveyed to the Ummet through the Babul Ilm to avoid andhi teqleed and thereby sectarianism and loss of the essential dynamism of an all-encompassing universalist religion; the over-simplified black-and-white sectarian/partial view of reality is what has reduced an iconoclastic religion to one or the other sectarian butkeda-e-tesewuraat; life is not just black-and-white; truth is achieved not by andhi teqleed of the great Mujtehids but by continuous Ijtehad according to the changing circumstance
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