Following one Particular Imam in every Juristic Issue

[Captain1]

Re: Following one Particular Imam in every Juristic Issue

@cricketplaya

Firsty, the Holy Qur’an in a number of verses has emphatically ordered us to follow the Shari’ah, and has made it strictly prohibited to follow the personal desires vis a vis the rules of Shari’ah. The Muslim jurists, while interpreting the sources of Shari’ah never intend to satisfy their personal desires.

How does following an option from one of the paths become a "personal" desire? A personal desire would be even after wet-dream someone choses to consider himself clean, pray without wudu etc.

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Now, if the policy of ‘pick and choose’ is allowed without any restriction, a layman can choose the Hanafi view in the matter of touching a woman and the Shafi’i view in the matter of bleeding. Consequently, he will deem his wudu’ unbroken even when he has combined both the situations, while in that case his wudu’ stands broken according to both Hanafi and Shafi’i views.
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Doesn't it mean these 'views' are contradictory? Then either you consider ONLY one to be true and follow that or you consider all 4 to be correct and you follow them 'pick and chose'. If all 4 are considered to be okay/acceptable then as long as are you are within 'boundary' of ANY of these views you should be okay.