And from the Most Merciful One is the legislation of ijtihad in ruling on principles and branches, taking into account differences, and establishing the ruling on the part of the truth by proving it to be a legal ruling against the diligent person, and it is forbidden for him to contravene it with the opposition in the rulings, so he decided the two opposing rulings and made the diligent scholars rewarded in that, so the diligent person legislated from the law that God has permitted. It is for this nation of Muhammad to legislate it, and I do not know whether it was specific to it or whether this did not cease to exist among the nations before it. It appears that it did not cease to exist among the nations, for the same Most Gracious One requires generality, especially since there is evidence in the Qur’an that indicates that this has not ceased to exist among the nations in the Almighty’s saying, “And monasticism they invented.” They did not create it except through their own dil