The denial of Ijtihad in practice has been the result not of externally over-strenuous qualifications but because of a deep desire to give permanence to the legal structure, once it was formulated and elaborated, in order to bring about and ensure unity and cohesiveness of the Muslim Ummah.
Kwa mtazamo wa Uislamu binadamu siyo kiumbe kilichopo bila ya makusudio yoyote yale aliyemuumba mwanadamu amempa mwongozo ili kwa kuufuata huo atakuwa amefikia lengo la kuumbwa kwake mfano amepewa akili maarifa, uwezo wa kutambua na ubuni.