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Feb 2025
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9/15: How To Choose The Marja Who Is Mos...

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Things you'll learn in this episode of The Real Shia Beliefs:

- How 'al-Shia al-Mufid Li'ilm' helps find the top Marja

- Factors that can deem this principle unusable

- How the concept of '2 just experts' works to find A'lam

- What to do when '2 just experts' disagree?

- Can we find A'lam through self-research?

- What to do when none of the three criteria work

- Can we do self-taqlid while searching for an A'lam?

- Significance of two just witnesses in Islam

- What is meant by 'most knowledgeable'?

- Does proficiency in modern sciences make someone A'lam?

- When can modern science expertise be considered as a criterion?

- Why Maraje' give open-ended fatwas?

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