Purification of "Ijtihad";The need for a reductionist approach to jurisprudential inferences

"Ijtihad" in its unique position is an attempt to infer Islamic Sharia law. But over the years, in many cases, some issues had been attached to and it expanded outside of its original extent. Such an expansion restricted other institutions like common sense, reason and science and narrowed the field for them and thus the Islamic jurists (Fuqaha) commented outside of their responsibility and have affected their followers in a way that they imitate them in non-sharia law too. In our times, this problem has increased due to the large number of new issues. Thus, non-jurisprudential based responses of Islamic jurists or Fuqaha (the plural of Jurist in Islamic jurisprudence) have damaged the authenticity and originality of Islamic jurisprudence and Ijtihad. So, once again, we have to define and delimit the scope and extent of Ijtihad to return it to its original position. This will be realized by purification of Ijtihad and removing heterogeneous elements.