[Hankie]

Thank you brother Abdulwahhab, you've done me a great service today and I will most certainly follow up your advices. Let me state firstly I was never so stupid as to change madhabs for convenience, its very sad and even pathetic that some would try to cheat Allah subhanna wa ta'ala. And I do know the backgrounds of the madhabs and how early they were formed, and I very pleased that the later madhabs followed in the steps of the previous madhabs and share the same central principles. From what I gathered from your post, it seems like the key importance of having a madhab is to prevent Muslims from taking on too many different ideas on certain concepts so as not to complicate their experience, which I believe is very helpful in one's practice. In my worship I have always just taken the advice of peers and imams, whom were predominately or entirely Shafi'i, and I planned to use the same method before learning about the world of madhabs. I will further research this topic. Thank you once again for sharing this helpful lesson.