If the person intends the issues of differing (khilāf) [that no rejection is shown towards them], then this is false, it opposes the consensus of the ummah. The Companions and those after them have never ceased showing rejection against anyone who opposed [the texts] and erred, whoever that may be, even if he was the most-knowledgeable of people and the most pious of them.

Since Allāh sent Muḥammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) with guidance and true religion and ordered us to follow it and abandon what opposes it, then from the completion of that is [to understand] that any scholar who opposes that is errant, he is notified of his error and rejection shown to him [for this error].

However, if he intends the issues of ijtihād, issues of differing [therein] where the truth is not clear, then this statement is correct [that rejection is now shown in such issues]. It is not permissible for a person to show rejection against something just because it opposes his madhhab (school of jurisprudence) or the customs of people. Just as it is not permissible for a person to command except with knowledge, likewise, it is not permissible to show rejection except with knowledge. And all of this enters into His, the Exalted’s saying: “And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge.” ^[2]