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1. Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (p): I warn you against two tendencies which
lead to perdition of Mankind. Do not resort to wrong ways with respect
of the Divine Religion and do not announce your verdict on matters
which you do not know.(B2, C11, T1)
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2. Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (p): I warn you against two tendencies that
have caused destruction to people. Beware of announcing your judgment
on the basis of your personal opinion before the people. And beware
of treating anything as permissible without due knowledge.(B2, C11,
T2)
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3. Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (p): One who pronounces his verdict (on
religious matters) before people without due knowledge and proper
guidance is cursed by the angels of mercy as well as by the angels
of chastisement and he is also responsible for the sin of those
who act according to that verdict.(B2, C11, T3)
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4. Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (p): Speak only about what you know. Regarding
what you do not know say ‘God knows best’. Verily, a
person may single out any verse from the Noble Quran (and interpret
it wrongly) and may fall down deeper than the distance between the
Heaven and the Earth…(B2, C11, T4)
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7. Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (p) was asked: What is the right of God
over His servants?
The Imam (p): They should say what they know and maintain silence
in case they do not know.(B2, C11, T7)
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8. Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (p): Verily God, the Mighty, the Majestic,
has especially warned His Servants in two verses of His Book. Firstly,
that they should not say anything without definite knowledge and
that they should never insist on what they do not know.
The Imam (p) then quoted two verses of the Noble Quran which are
as follows:
Was not a Covenant of the Book (of Law) taken from them that they
will not speak about God save the truth? (Q, 7:169)
Nay! They belied that which they comprehended not with the knowledge
of it and the explanation of it comes not unto them (Q, 10:39).(B2,
C11, T8)
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9. Prophet Muhammad (p): …Whoever acts on the basis of faulty
conclusions (in religious matters) is doomed and brings others to
their doom and whoever issues a prescript (an edict) without any
knowledge of the abrogated verses (of the Noble Quran) and of those
verses that have abrogated them and without any knowledge of those
verses which are precise in meaning and of (those that are) ambiguous,
meets his doom and brings others to their doom.(B2, C11, T9)
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