Religious Inquiries
The requirements of
man in his environment and the measures that he must take to arrange them are so
great that a common man cannot enumerate them let alone specializing in all of
them and obtaining enough knowledge concerning them.
On the other hand, since man performs his tasks by means of thinking and will
power, he should have sufficient information when he wants to take a decision.
He will be unable to take decisions if he lacks sufficient information. He must
either be fully qualified himself to take any course of action or he must ask
someone who is endowed with qualifications and so perform his duties according
to his instructions. For instance, we instinctively refer to a doctor for the
treatment of our ailments, to a civil engineer for the plan of a building, to a
mason for masonry work, and to a carpenter for making doors and windows.
Thus we always spend our lives by means of taqlid or following others
even for insignificant matters.
Whoever says: "I do not follow another person in my life", either he does not
understand the meaning of his words or is affected by a mental sickness. Islam,
which has based its religious laws on the human nature, has also adopted the
same policy.
Islam orders its followers to learn the religious teachings and precepts. The
source of these teachings is nothing but the Divine Book, i.e., Quran and the
ahadith of the Holy Prophet (SA) and the infallible Imams (AS).
It is obvious that obtaining all religious teachings from the Quran and the
ahadith is not an easy task. Such a task is not possible for all Muslims and
only a limited number of people can accomplish this task.
Therefore, this religious order naturally takes the form that a group of
Muslims, who are not able to acquire the teachings and precepts through
reasoning, should refer to those who have obtained the Islamic commandments
through proofs and reasoning, and should then perform their duties.
IC-NCL is ready to answer to all of your religious
inquires according to the
Fatwas of Ayatullah Imam Ali Khamenei and other leading maraji.
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