التَّقليدُ المَذمومُ Disparaged Emulation

1ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ في قولِهِ تعالى: «اتَّخَذُوا أحْبارَهُم ورُهْبانَهُم أرباباً مِن دُونِ اللّه‏ِ» ـ: واللّه‏ِ ما صَلَّوا لَهُم ولا صامُوا، ولكنَّهُم أحَلُّوا لَهُم حَراماً، وحَرَّموا علَيهِم حَلالاً فاتَّبَعُوهُم.

1– Imam al-Sadiq (AS), speaking to one of his companions said, ‘Do not be opportunists saying, ‘I am with the people and I am one of the people!’[Ma`aani al-Akhbar, p. 266, no. 1]
 

2ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ لِرجُلٍ مِن أصحابِهِ ـ: لا تَكونَنَّ إمَّعةً، تقولُ: أنا مَع الناسِ وأنا كَواحِدٍ مِن الناسِ!

2– Imam al-Sadiq (AS), with regard to Allah’s verse in the Qur’an: “They have taken their scribes and their monks as lords besides Allah” [Qur’an 9:31], said, ‘By Allah, they did not pray to them nor did they fast, rather they permitted for them the prohibited and prohibited the permitted and people followed them.’[al-Mahasin, v. 1, p. 383, no. 847]