Fatwa, Fatwa, Fatwa, Please Do Go Away!
You Teach us to go So Many Different Ways,
So when We Consider Full Fatwa Description,
Along with the Middle East On Line Excerptions,
How could we ever negotiate with all the Clerics,
Who Write Different Fatawa Reversing each Other,
And expect us to live together at peace as Brothers!
There are situations where mankind can indeed Hope,
Islam and Christianity having Peace is Not One of Them,
I can in all honesty only advise you of an unhappy Ending,
And hope you’re ready for his 2nd Advent & new Beginning!
December 13, 2008
http://www.tribultionperiod.com/
Islam wants the Infidel world, no-believers in Allah, to change their laws to the laws of Islam, which is one of the most confus
ing set of theological goggle-de-goop ever issued on this earth. The Islamic Antichrist will try to replace the laws of the Old World (before Columbus sailed the earth in 1492) with Sharia and its appendages, one of which is the loosely attached system of the Fatawa.
He will believe he can change the holidays they celebrate according to the times of their calendar to those of the Muslim calendar, and the laws they observe to correspond with the laws the Islamic faith observes. He will attempt to do this for a time (360 days) and times (720 days) and the dividing of time (180 days). At the end of that time Christ will return at his Second Advent to end the battle of Armageddon and establish his great Kingdom on earth.
Daniel 7:25-27 – And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
The following definition and description of an Islamic Fatah was extracted from Wikipedia.
A fatwā; plural fatāwā, in the Islamic faith is a religious op
inion on Islamic law issued by an Islamic scholar.
In Sunni Islam any fatwa is non-binding, whereas in Shia Islam it could be, depending on the status of the scholar.
In the early days of Islam, fatwa were pronounced by distinguished scholars to provide guidance to other scholars, judges and citizens on how subtle points of Islamic law should be understood, interpreted or applied. There were strict rules on who is eligible to issue a valid fatwa and who could not, as well as on the conditions the fatwa must satisfy
to be valid.
According to the usul al-fiqh (principles of jurisprudence), the fatwa must meet the following conditions in order to be valid:
The fatwa is in line with relevant legal proofs, deduced from Qur’anic verses and hadiths; provided the ahadith was not later abrogated by Muhammad.
It is issued by a person (or a board) having due knowledge and sincerity of heart;
It is free from individual opportunism, and not depending on political servitude;
It is adequate with the needs of the contemporary world.
Today, with the existence of modern independent States, each with its own legislative system, and/or its own body of Ulemas, each country develops and applies its own rules, based on its own interpretation of religious prescriptions. Many Muslim countries (such as Egypt and Tunisia) have an official Mufti position; a distinguished expert in the Sharia is appointed to this position by the civil authorities of the country.
In nations where Islamic law is the basis of civil law, but has not been codified, as is the case of some Arab countries in the Middle East, fatwa by the national religious leadership are debated prior to being issued. In theory, such fatwa should rarely be contradictory. If two fatwa are potentially contradictory, the ruling bodies (combined civil and religious law) would attempt to define a compromise interpretation that will eliminate the resulting ambiguity. In these cases, the national theocracies expect fatwa to be settled law.
In nations where Islamic law is not the basis of law (as is the case in various Asian and African countries), different mujtahids can issue contradictory Fatwa. In such cases, Muslims would typically honour the fatwa deriving from the leadership of their religious tradition. For example, Sunni Muslims would favor a Sunni fatwa whereas Shiite would follow a Shi’a one.
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2008-12-05
Saudi’s large souk for fatwa merchants
Farcical fatwas, often at odds with each other, flood Saudi sites, satellites as faithful seek spiritual answers.
By Habib Trabelsi – PARIS
Women are banned from sitting on a chair or surfing the Internet in the absence of a male guardian, prohibited from playing football or learning English: According to preachers, the scope of lawful shrinks like a shagreen in Saudi Arabia, a juicy souk for merchants of fatwas.
Investors in the lucrative market of fatwas
“The fatwa market should be banned. It is illegal to use religion for profitable goals,” said Sheikh Abdel Mohsen Al-Oubikane, member of the Advisory Board and advisor at
the Ministry of Justice.
He deplored “the great mess created by the anarchic fatwas, especially flourishing during Ramadan,” the Muslim month of fasting, the daily al-Riyadh reported on September 25, 2008.
Dozens of clerics and preachers poured into satellite television channels to issue religious decrees, mostly preposterous and sometimes bloody.
False solutions to false problems
Others offer their services “à la carte”, responding to specific issues and providing false solutions to false problems via the Internet or, even better, by charged SMS.
According to al-Riyadh, a Saudi preacher has reached a record 150,000 subscribers.
“Fatwas On-Live: Ask a question which the Sheikh will directly answer.
Only subscribers can access it. Sign up by clicking here. Above all, do not deprive yourself of the good,” said one of the many offers on the Internet.
Wholesale market
Another offers “a program of thousands of fatwas issued over the last hundred years by the Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee” and recommends “all Muslims download it.”
Abdellatif Mohamed Al-Sheikh, the editor-in-chief of the Saudi daily al-Jazirah, wrote that “investment in fatwas is an illegitimate and shameful looting of others’ money”and urged authorities to ban “this cheap business.”
A Babel tower
“In the souk of fatwas, there is from everything: political fatwas with a religious casing, religious fatwas with political connotations, tailored fatwas, a mufti authorizes what another prohibits … it is a Babel tower!” wrote an internet surfer in the wake of comments which were triggered by the fever of fatwas issued by leading Saudi clerics or preachers practising in the kingdom.
The most controversial fatwas were a call to murder owners of depraved television channels and another, of Syrian origin, to fight Mickey Mouse and his satanic fellows.
These serial fatwas, which were not spared by the Western media, were also ridiculed by many columnists of Saudi newspapers and derided by countless readers.
Trivial Fatwas
Some have even had fun in making inventories of “nonsense” uttered by “stars of the satellite channels” and “online fatwas.”
For instance, the chair is a Western invention. The Prophet Muhammad sat on the floor.
This brings one closer to the Crea
tor. A woman should not sit on a chair because she spreads her charms this way… And then the chair is “masculine” word in Arabic!
“The “perfidious” nature of the woman should not allow her to surf the Web alone. She should browse the Internet in the presence of a male guardian,” decreed two prominent preachers.
Another sheikh has demonstrated, in 36 pages, that practising football is illegal unless women fulfill “fifteen conditions”: The first being that this game’s objective is to “strengthen the body … to devote themselves to jihad!”
As for the English language, learning it distracts children from the Arabic language and teaches them in the same time to learn to love natives of this foreign language.
Same verdict for chemistry; “a form of magic,” high-heeled shoes; “misleading, because they show women bigger than they normally are,” besides a ban on veiled women to wear colourful clothing excluding black, a ban on men to cut their hair on Friday or to wear a tie and on a faithful to applaud, to laugh.
Infuriated Saudis: The kingdom in the line of fire
“Clearly, our ulema (scholars) do not leave us anything lawful,” said an internet surfer. “We have had enough of these ridiculous fatwas which incite the world’s contempt towards our country and our religion,” adds a second.
“We must be careful … None of us should be on the lookout of the slightest slip so they can exploit it as they please,” write the blogger Mohamed Al-Maghlouth on http://www.the-plucky.com/blogs/?p=190.
“Saudi Arabia is under the spotlight. Every word uttered by a cleric is automatically picked up by newspapers and websites, to make it a mockery,” adds his fellow Thamar Al-Marzouki at http://www.ljo2.net/?p=320.
A “world jurisprudence league”
This bulimia of fatwas, often sad, led Sheikh Oubikane to call, September 25, for the establishment of a “world jurisprudence league” which would be “open to all Muslim faiths and grouping not less than one hundred clerics, in a bid to issue fatwas after having been checked and screened. The league will then be the only reference for all Muslims.”
But his call, which was published by the daily al-Riyadh, immediately caused uproar… Several readers have strongly rejected the idea of associating ‘Rafidha’ (derogatory term used by Sunnis to describe Shiites) to such a project.
“Have we forgotten that the Rafidha insult Abu Bakr and Omar (the companions of the Prophet Muhammad) and Aisha (the Prophet’s favorite wife)? Have we forgotten that the Rafidha are currently exterminating Sunnis in Iraq
? “How dare we say: let us unite our fatwas with them?” Lamented a reader.
“This would require reuniting day with night,” replied another.
[Translated from French by Saad Guerraoui, senior editor at Middle East Online].
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