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[quote]Dear Brother Aboosait,

I totally agree, the quality of decision, as you defined it will be judged in every decision you take. That is a given.

However if one has made a mistake in one of the decisions un-intentionally there is a chance of correcting it if he makes the choice number of times on different matters.

Incase of [u][b]one decision[/b][/u] (i.e. decision to choose scholar for a life-time following) such a diversification of risk-of-error doesnt take place.

In statistics, we usually refer to it as the [b][maroon]law of large numbers[/maroon][/b], let me explain it as well. In simple terms, the more you toss a coin, the more closer the [b]ratio-of-heads-to-tails[/b] would be to the [b]true-ratio[/b] of the coin (which is 50:50 incase of an un-biased coin). So the more oppurtunity [blue](no. of decisions from available scholarly opinions/options)[/blue] you give yourself of checking whether something is closer to Quran & Sunnah or not, the better are your chances that you will be closer to Truth.

I hope I have not made it too complicated :)

P.S. [i]And by the way your comment regarding the extent of knowledge of the individual in deciding a scholar is still valid, I havent rejected it[/i]

Edited by: salmant on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:43 AM

Edited by: salmant on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:46 AM[/quote]

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