What is your opinion regarding one who shows disdain for following a school of jurisprudence?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, some people show disdain for following a school of jurisprudence and memorizing the texts of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) under the pretext of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) and taking from the hadith. What is your view?

Answer:
This is like trying to climb over the walls of buildings before he has learned to walk. In any case, it is not permissible. It is not permissible. Has he reached the conditions of the mujtahid (a scholar qualified to derive rulings)? Does he possess the qualifications that made him like Imam Ahmad, Imam Malik, al-Shafi'i, and Abu Hanifah? Have the conditions of ijtihad been met in him?
If the conditions of ijtihad are met in him, it is obligatory for him to exercise ijtihad. But if the conditions of ijtihad are not in him, and he is merely a poor commoner or a beginner, and has not studied any of the knowledge, then he is in great danger. It is obligatory for him to practice taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence), otherwise he will be lost. Allah the Exalted said: So he does not have any of the qualifications to exercise ijtihad. Therefore, he must follow one of the schools of the scholars of knowledge and the people of the Sunnah and the community, because this is specific to him, and it is not permissible for him to exercise ijtihad when he does not know how to do so, lest he be lost and cause others to be lost. This is a calamity for many of the contemporaries today: they have reached the rank of ijtihad, yet they are poor people who do not know the preliminaries of the sciences. They do not know the preliminaries of the sciences. They do not know grammar, they do not know the principles of jurisprudence, they do not know fiqh, they do not know the rules of fiqh, they do not know tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), they do not know hadith. How can this person become a mujtahid?
And he has not studied under ; he only reads in books. This is a danger to himself and a danger to the Muslims. So the Muslim should fear Allah and know his own worth, because this is not an easy matter. It is a matter of religion, and a matter of standing before Allah on the Day of Resurrection This person is not among the scholars of knowledge; he is among the meddlers and the beginners. From where did he take the knowledge? From whom did he learn? From whom did he study? Yes.