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[quote]Thank you Brother Usmani for sharing some useful extracts on 'Ijtihad' and 'Mujtahid'.

I think there is a need to separate two things that are being said at the same time:

1) Drawing out legal directives, or research in other academic issues, from the original sources (i.e. Quran & Sunnah), and in that possibly differing from the established scholars.

2) Understanding the message broadly,  and testing the available opinions of Islam on the criterion of Quran & Sunnah.

You are absolutely right, for point number 1) the requirements that you have quoted are essiential. However for 2), had it been necessary to go through that list of qualifications, The Prophet (sws) would have himself suggested us to be a Muttabi or Muqallid. But did he?. No he did not. Instead he told not to make your scholars your Lords. And Quran kept asking 'for pondering'. Both these facts mean that, for 2) basic reasoning skills of a common man suffice. As I wrote earlier, 2) was the assumption & motivation behind Maududi's Tafseer & Translation as well.[/quote]

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