The Madhhab partisans’ war on ijtihad and their insistence that every person must practice taqlid:

Now that this has been made clear, we must turn to what we promised earlier: an examination of those who claim to follow the Imams and an assessment of how soundly they in fact adhere to their words. I say:

The attitude of the vast majority of taqlid-bound shaykhs through the ages is truly remarkable. At the very same time that they affirm they are unqualified to return directly to the Quran and the Sunnah to derive rulings—and that, therefore, they must imitate the Imams—you find them unwilling to be branded as ignorant, even though that is the logical consequence of their own scholars’ statements. Indeed, we see that they have departed from their professed taqlid in many