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"But now many deobandis more or less have been forced to admit, at least by practice, that all of them used to be wrong on those issues and the 'akabir' had all got it wrong."
We have not lived in the times of the akabir, and so we do not know their true value.
Even within the deobandi school of thought, there have always been differences of opinion on various matters. One example is the practice of Juma'a in villages. We have verdicts of both permissibility and impermissibility from our akabir. They formed their opinions based on their ilm and taqwa, neither of which we can fault.
There will always be some in the Ummah who will be the "ghuraba" (strangers). They will uphold the deen without bothering about the "laumata laa-im" (adverse opinions of people).
We should be grateful they existed, so that people would have someone to point to and say, "Those were the rijalullah (men of Allah swt)."