Its perfectly excusable to blindly follow if you live in the middle of a jungle, on an island

Its perfectly excusable to blindly follow if you live in the middle of a jungle, on an island, in the desert or a village and haven't got the abilities to read & write.

If your reading this status then your really not from the jungle!

As for the people who got the abilities to read and write shouldn't really blindly follow and should always question their sheikhs and imams.

The sufis & blind hanafi fanatics insist and make it obligatory for people to blindly follow a madhab and their sufi sheikhs, they want people to remain jahils & ignorant towards their religion.

We are no scholars or muftis but if Allah's given you the ability then we should seek knowledge as it's an obligation upon every one of us unless of course if you live isolated in a cave.

All the hard work has been done by many scholars who have written volumes of commentaries and tafsirs of Quran and hadiths.

We can spend time on worldly matters but how much time do we really give in gaining knowledge?

Imam Abu Hanifa Rahimahullah said
"When I say something contradicting the Book of Allah the Exalted or what is narrated from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), then ignore my saying." !!!

{Al-Fulaani in Eeqaaz al-Himam (p. 50),
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Imaam Maalik ibn Anas (rahimahullaah) said:

"Truly I am only a mortal: I make mistakes (sometimes) and I am correct (sometimes). Therefore, look into my opinions: all that agrees with the Book and the Sunnah, accept it; and all that does not agree with the Book and the Sunnah, ignore it."

{Ibn 'Abdul Barr in Jaami' Bayaan al-'Ilm (2/32), Ibn Hazm, quoting from the former in Usool al-Ahkaam (6/149), and similarly Al-Fulaani (p. 72)}

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Imaam Shaafi'i (rahimahullaah) said:

"The sunnahs of the Messenger of Allah (saaws) reach, as well as escape from, every one of us. So whenever I voice my opinion, or formulate a principle, where something contrary to my view exists on the authority of the Messenger of Allah (saaws), then the correct view is what the Messenger of Allah (saaws) has said, and it is my view."

{Related by Haakim with a continuous sanad up to Shaafi'i, as in Taareekh Dimashq of Ibn 'Asaakir (15/1/3), I'laam al-Mooqi'een (2/363, 364) & Eeqaaz (p. 100)}.

Imam Shaafi'i (rahimahullaah)

."Every statement on the authority of the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) is also my view, even if you do not hear it from me."

{Ibn Abi Haatim (pp. 93-4)}.

Imam Shafaii Rahmtullah Said:-

" follow it (the Sunnah), and do not look sideways at anyone else's saying."

{Harawi in Dhamm al-Kalaam (3/47/1), Khateeb in Al-Ihtijaaj bi ash-Shaafi'i (8/2), Ibn 'Asaakir (15/9/10),