The powers of the fatwa broke out religious and legislative disputes in Egypt

Fatwa’s powers evoked a religious and legislative debate in Egypt, coinciding with the approval of religious affairs and the committee of equipment in the Chamber of Representatives (Parliament), in principle on a legal project on the regulatory of the legal fatwa and in the addition of the Islamic Academy for the Internal Center for the Fatwa Parent Center to the competent authorities in the private fatwa.

The discussions on the parliamentary committee of the bill witnessed a debate on the authorized authorities to issue religious fatwas, and Al -azhar objected to what was declared in article three of the law project to grant a committee at the Ministry of Awqaf the right of consultants, according to local media.

Dr. Muhammad Saad al -Dawini, the Undersecretary of Al -azhar, asked for reason for not having granted the people of Al -azhar the right to Fatwa. “Although Al -azhar includes multiple sectors, including the sector of Al -azhar Institutes, which includes 170 thousand teachers, of which 50 thousand are graduated in the college of Sharia and the law,” underlining “the need for the Fatwa to be under the supervision of Al -azhar and the IFTA house.”

AL -Dawini said that “al -azhar is legally responsible for every fatwa who graduated at the level of the Republic and the senior authority of scholars due to this question ended in refusing the legal project on the issue of the Fatwa”.

Dr. Osama al -azhari, Egyptian minister of the equipment, defended the text proposed in the bill and said that “the workers of the Ministry of Awqaf are the children of Al -azhar”. He added: «Let’s not say that all those who work in the Ministry of Awqaf can have advice, but rather the training and rehabilitation programs established by the Egyptian house Fatwa must pass, according to the conditions determined by Al -azhar.

Dr. Ali Jumaa, the chief of the committee, asked for proposals to resolve the dispute, so that “the chaos of Fatwa does not leave the same”. Jumaa stressed that “everyone agrees that the Fatwa must be organized”, noting that “there are reserves on some of the provisions of the law project and the continuation of discussions to improve and control the formulations until the law project comes out with consent”.

The Committee for the religious affairs of Parliament is scheduled on Tuesday to discuss the discussion on the remaining articles of the bill.

Articles 3 of the project includes “Determities the entities Assigned to issue the Legal Fatwa, Provided This This is from the Council of Senior Scholars, and the Egyptian FAWA HOUSE, While it is concerned with the Private Legal Fatwa in al -azhar, Both the Council of Senior Scholars, The Islamic Research Academy, The Egyptian Fatwa House, or the Fatwa Committees at the Ministry of Endowments Established in Accordance with the Provisions of Articles 4 of this law.

Considering that article 4 included “the organization of the fatwa committees within the Ministry of Equipment and the general and fundamental conditions in those authorized by the legal fatwa”. Article 5 was organized by the issue of separation of the contradiction between the legal fatwas making the Council of Senior scholars a weighting if the legal fatwas issued by the authorities interested in the fatwa.

The bill aims to “define the competent authorities to issue Fatwas”, in an attempt to reduce the “Fatwas chaos”, which has already aroused controversy widespread in Egypt in recent years, between repeated official warnings of their serious serious.

At the end of last year, an international conference in Cairo organized by the “general secretariat of the role and consultative bodies in the world”, under the umbrella of the Egyptian house Fatwa, asked for “controls” to face “the chaos of the Fatwas”.

The Mufti of Egypt, Ayyad’s analogy, promised “Fatwas chaos” one of the “dangerous” challenges for the safety of companies, noting that social media have contributed to spreading this “chaos”. He stressed that the Fatwa has an important role in “improving national affiliation, identity and creation of the principles of complete citizenship, which is based on coexistence, tolerance and acceptance of religious, ethnic and social diversity in the same homeland”.

And for years Egypt has tried to confront “the chaos of Fatwa”, in particular with the diffusion of “Muftis in the satellite channels”, among Fatwa complaints that have aroused controversy in society.

The professor of comparative jurisprudence and the Islamic law at the University of Al -azhar, dr. Ahmed Karima, assures ASharq al -awsat, that “Fatwa is the jurisdiction of the Islamic jurisprudence of Egyptian scholars and the Egyptian factor and all Egyptian and Egyptian scholars. Sciences”, indicating that “the Ministry of Equipment is the main task of invitation, preaching, imamato and religion lessons”. He added: “How does the professor of jurisprudence have the right to Fatwa?”

The secretary assistant of the “Islamic research academy” by Al -azhar, dr. Ilham Shaheen, underlined “the need to organize the fatwa and to issue a law in this sense”, explaining to “Al -Sharq al -wasat” that the authorities have entrusted the fatwa with the fatwa are the Council of his commitments, which the authorities entrusted the authorities, which the authorities have entrusted to the Fatwa are the councils of Analamic, starting from the Council, that the authorities have entrusted the authorities, who have entrusted the authorities, Entrusted the fatwas with the fatwa are the Council of Seniori, starting from the Ampetes, which the authorities entrusted the Council, that the authorities entrusted the Fatwas, the advice of Analamic, who had the Board, that the authorities entrusted the fatwa, the advice of Analamic, which the authorities entrusted the Council, that the authorities were entrusted to the fatwas. Scholars and the IFTA house. “