This piece of writing will discuss two distinct groups in syi'ah tradition, which differ one from anather in determining the right owner of religious autorities. The first group, ushuliyyah, asserts that activities of ijtihad only belong to particular group, the so called mujtahid. The common people, therefore, have to obey their fatwa. In this contect, marja' al taqlid, then, refers to a commi…