من الواضح أن موضوع التقليد مقصور على الحكم، ولا يشمل العقيدة. ويحرم التقليد في العقيدة، أي في الاعتقاد، لأن الله تعالى ذمّ المقلدين في العقيدة، وقد ذكر الله تعالى ذلك في آيات كثيرة:

It should be clear that the subject of Taqleed is limited to the Hukm (rule) and does not include the „Aqeedah (Belief). It is forbidden to make Taqleed in the creed, i.e. „Aqeedah because Allah (swt) has censured the Muqallids (imitators) in „Aqeedah. Allah (swt) has mentioned this in many verses:

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ اتَّبِعُوا مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ قَالُوا بَلْ نَتَّبِعُ مَا أَلْفَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ آبَاءَنَا أَوَلَوْ كَانَ آبَاؤُهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَهْتَدُونَ [سورۃ البقرہ: 170]

“And if they said to them follow what Allah has revealed, they said but we follow what our fore fathers left for us. Even if their fathers understood not, and were not guided”. (TMQ Al-Baqarah: 170)

قُلْ هَلْ عِندَكُم مِّنْ عِلْمٍ فَتُخْرِجُوهُ لَنَا ۖ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا الظَّنَّ

"Do you have Ilm for that which you claim so that you provide us with? You follow nothing but conjecture (Zann)." (TMQ Al-An‟am:148)

إِنْ هِيَ إِلَّا أَسْمَاءٌ سَمَّيْتُمُوهَا أَنْتُمْ وَآبَاؤُكُمْ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ بِهَا مِنْ سُلْطَانٍ ۖ إِنْ يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا الظَّنَّ وَمَا تَهْوَى الْأَنْفُسُ ۖ وَلَقَدْ جَاءَهُمْ مِنْ رَبِّهِمُ الْهُدَى

“These are nothing but names which you have devised, you and your fathers, for which Allah has sent down no authority. They follow nothing but conjecture and what their Nafs desire. Even though there has already come to them the Guidance from their Lord” (TMQ An-Najm: 23)