<b>Guidance from the Hadith:</b><br> 1) Every individual in the Muslim community has a responsibility which he should discharge in a way that is pleasing to Allah Almighty.<br> 2) With the proper distribution of responsibilities and guardianships, matters become perfect and rightly-set, for it is true that the believers complete each other.<br> <br> <b>Benefit:</b><br> The Hadith includes a great commandment, which is to refer to the people of knowledge and follow their guidance. This is evidenced by the statement of the prominent scholar Al-Tāhir ibn ‘Āshūr (may Allah have mercy upon him) on the Fiqh of the Hadith: “Scholars are not mentioned among the guardians of the Ummah, nor are they responsible for the Muslims, because they are a referential authority that the guardians and caretakers refer to.”<br> He added: “The calamities and afflictions that befell this Ummah did not appear until its lay people swerved away from the guidance of the scholars and refrained from resorting to them for solving whatever problematic matters they might encounter. When the lay Muslims dared to follow their own opinions in solving matters that were too hard to be handled, dispensed with the guidance of the scholars of Shariah, and became followers of the callers to error, Muslims were afflicted with failure, and their guide became the sword and sharp arrows.” [Summarized from Usool al-Nidhām al-Ijtimā‘i fi al-Islām]