Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned the verse: “Do not follow what you do not know” (Quran 17:36) as evidence for rejecting and prohibiting imitation, and he said: “Imitation is separate from knowledge, by the consensus of the people of knowledge.” And in his I`laam al-Muwaqqi`een he stated more than eighty viewpoints toward proving imitation to be an invalid practice and countering the misconceptions of its supporters.