The Asherites' Concern About Knowledge

A mukaled might not be an unbeliever, but is a believer in only a qualified sense. Believers whose convictions are formed by talid will only be right if they happen to follow reliable authority. If they fail to grasp the truth, they are in error and deviate from the truth. We saw that the jurists qualified their legal elitism by distinguishing between levels of taklid with one or more middl positions. The asherites did much the same in the theological context.