Both, the scholarly efforts in the studies of the Laws called 'Ejtihad', and the following of the (Fatwas) decisions of a qualified scholar in this field called 'Taqlid' are continuous tasks on the part of common people. The whole Quran as a text of law is with us in the same form as it was revealed. The same is true of a great number of the Ahadith, saying of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family). What is required is a logical practice of the Law which naturally demands scholarly efforts in order to find out the exact precept of an event, a process that requires greater experience and farsightedness from the specialists.
The specialists have to manage for greater safety measures by means of more profound inferences than their predecessors. This gives the common people the logical opportunity of not limiting themselves within the view points of the specialist of the remote past, just as modern medical progress tells us not to accept the outdated theories in the medical field. For this reason, the relationship between the specialist in the studies of the Law and the common people is an ever new relationship and of a continuous nature. The scholars, especially, the well qualified ones have a holier position as being the representatives of the Imams (a.s.), in the general sense.