Re: Following one Particular Imam in every Juristic Issue
I doubt you could understand it if you could not grasp what I was trying to say through my example. My analogy was meant to highlight how people often refuse to realize the view point of other madhabs to the point where they would create division.
This happened in the masjid I usually go to. Two years ago on Eid ul Fitr we had two Jama'a in the masjid because on the large volume of people. The regular Imam usually prays the Eid Salat the sha'afi way, the second Jama'a was to be lead by another person who said he will lead it the Hanafi way (different number of Takbirs at different times in the prayer). Half the people refused to pray behind him and a useless argument ensued. This is but one little example.
Those who say all madhabs are right truely lack any insight or understanding at all. A major reason why some of the opinions of these great jurists differ is because the set of evidence they derived it from was different. If they had the breadth of evidence that is available to the jurists of today I think there opinions would be much more along the same lines.
See these great jurists were not ignorant of evidence but they simply did not have it all or more of it. We today are simply ignorant of it despite the fact that we have it and are not willing re-evaluate a lot of things and overruling some of the things that different madhabs have established.