About Taqleed, is it mandatory or not?

                                  Those who obey likewise person will be in loss.

 

If ye obey a man like yourselves, behold, it is certain ye will be lost.

Issuance of Fatwa based on opinion (Rai) and Judging without knowledge is forbidden

 

For he commands you what is evil and shameful, and that ye should say of Allah that of which ye have no knowledge.

 

Tafseer: - In Kaafi it is narrated by Imam Mohammed Baqir (AS) that when he was asked about the claim (Haq) of Allah on His servants. Imam replied, “Talk only about the things which you know and be silent about things which you don’t have knowledge of”.

Imam Jaffer Sadiq (AS) said “Be safe from two characteristics, since whoever was ruined, was because of these two .One is avoid giving a fatwa using own opinion (rai) and other is do not give judgment when you don’t have factual knowledge”.