What is the ruling on acts of worship that differ from our (Hanbali) madhhab in a country that follows the Hanafi madhhab, such as not saying "ameen" aloud, collective supplication after prayer, and making the iqama like the adhan, along with the prevalence of polytheistic practices and innovations like mawlids and the use of loudspeakers for reciting the Quran and chanting anasheeds between prayers, given the scarcity of knowledge of both madhhabs and the difficulty of obtaining religious references?

The recognized schools of thought today, such as the Hanbali and Hanafi madhhabs, are attributed to great imams who established jurisprudential schools. However, adherence to a specific madhhab among them is not obligatory. Rather, adherence must be to the Quran and Sunnah, for the evidence is what counts, and it is not permissible to deviate from it for the sake of anyone's statement. The differences among the madhhabs are based on ijtihad (independent reasoning) in matters for which there is no text or consensus, and they cannot contain shirk (polytheism) or bid'ah (innovation). Some matters attributed to followers of the Hanafi madhhab are not innovations, and previous fatwas regarding them can be reviewed.