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I have often heard talks by ulemah where they refer to them as ghair muqallids and say that these people just pick and choose rulings themselves when in reality it is not the case

although this is not really the fault of the ulemah because salafis/ahle hadith try to make people think they go directly to Quran and Sunnah and don't refer to scholars but i think it would make more sense if ulemah said it how it really is rather than how the salafis/ahlehadith try to make out that they don't follow anyone