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Overview
Shaykh Shaltut rejects taqlid — inheriting beliefs and opinions from fathers and grandfathers without inquiry or proof — noting the Qur'an blamed it in many verses 1. Sticking to the ancients' opinions merely because they came earlier collides with the law of intellectual growth as with the growth of creatures, and robs man of his faculty of telling truth from falsehood 23 — a crime, he calls it, against human nature.
Connections
- Related to
- Reason and knowledge in Islam
People and things also explored
Reason and knowledge in Islam· The eight principles of education in the Qur'an and Sunna· Ada' al-dayn (paying a debt: its ruling, the manner of payment, insolvency and the debts of the dead)· Ada' al-shahada (performing testimony: the duty on request, the excused witness, and the wording)· Manners of the Qur'an bearer· Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Adha (harm of a slight kind: removing harmful things and the duty not to harm)· Justice and grace (adl wal-fadl)
Sources
- The Qur'anic Method in Building Society — Mahmud Shaltut , p. 57
- The Qur'anic Method in Building Society — Mahmud Shaltut , p. 58
- The Qur'anic Method in Building Society — Mahmud Shaltut , p. 59
- Safir al-Islam ila Sa'ir al-Aqwam (The Ambassador of Islam to All Peoples) — Muhammad Farid Wajdi
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islam.museum contributors. “Taqlid (blind imitation of inherited views)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/al-taqlid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.