How To Use Fatwa In A Sentence
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The latest edict from the National Fatwa Council reflects a growing swing towards a conservative brand of Islam in the multi-ethnic country that has prompted worries among non-Muslims.
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The first of these fatwas deals with the issue of inter-marriage between Shias and Sunnis.
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Thinking the mufti was delivering a verdict on "misyar" marriages, many newspapers and websites were quick to point out that the mufti's ruling was contrary to a fatwa delivered by 60 Islamic scholars at a Muslim World children have tested positive for swine flu, bringing the total H1N1 tally in the Kingdom to
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Mr. Naipaul's "picong" remarks range from silly putdowns -- such as when he said of one of Queen Elizabeth's grandchildren that she had the face of a criminal -- to snippy but revelatory show-off remarks, like his comment that the fatwa against Salman Rushdie for "The Satanic Verses" was an extreme form of literary criticism.
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Historically, fatwas were independent of the judicial system, although some muftis were officially attached to various courts.
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Some called the annulment “a ruling handed down in Kandahar” and “a real fatwa against the emancipation of women,” the BBC said.
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Paper tiger. while we're no religious scholars we know the fatwah is a muslim edict of sorts.
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The MUI must issue a fatwa * on the issue* if there is a request from an institution or individual.
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His fatwas or rulings are for the most part advisory, and tend to address more abstract issues.
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bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims to take up arms against the United States
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But, there's been a specific threat issued by Osama Bin Laden some months ago when he issued a fatwah, which is a religious sort of document committing, you know, his Islamic followers, or extremist Islamic followers to carry out attacks against the great Satan, i.e., the United States.
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The minister was asked what guidance had been issued on the validity of fatwas and of other rulings issued by religious authorities to decide matrimonial disputes.
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This was the first time that most people outside the Muslim world had heard the word fatwa, or religious edict.
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A fatwa is a legal statement in Islam, issued by a mufti or a religious lawyer after reference to precedents to decide on an issue of jurisprudence.
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In Sunni Islam any fatwa is non-binding, whereas in Shia Islam it could be, depending on the status of the scholar.
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According to Khan, a fatwa is a response given in writing to a specific question, and can only be given by a qualified scholar, or 'mufti.'
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A senior cleric issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against the practice last month.
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In my humble opinion, there should be a new fatwa out that states any children born from misyar marriages are the responsibility of the father and their wages will be garnished to support those children wherever they are worldwide!
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But some reporters have used the term imprecisely, conveying the idea that a fatwa is the equivalent of a death sentence, or indiscriminately, using the term to describe what many would argue are political statements by terrorist groups, rather than religious rulings.
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Back then, they obeyed fatwas by clerics to boycott the vote.
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And jon's point about the media's decision not to publish the Danish cartoons or to raise a hue and cry over Wilders shows how conditional the chatterati consider freedom of speech (I remember how mealy mouthed they were over Rushdie's fatwah as well).
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One elderly cleric recently issued a fatwa on his website, decreeing that anyone who advocated mixing sexes was an enemy of Islam and should be killed.
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Sheikh Haitham Islam of Al-Azhar's Fatwa Committee blamed "trouble-makers" from the deposed regime of former President Hosni Mubarak of trying to create a crisis.
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They were underline their commitment to peace and to issue a fatwa condemning the bombings as forbidden in Islam.
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Anyone opposed to the GlA fatwas, even other Islamist rebels, was considered a heretic.
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As a former academic lawyer, I've been enjoying reading various fatwas and religious rulings over the last few months.
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In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a "World Islamic Front.
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Gambling is forbidden in Islam, and the fatwa quotes a verse from the Koran that calls on all Muslims to avoid gambling as an abomination and Satan's handiwork.
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I think the use of the expression "fatwa" is insensitive, rude and unnecessary.
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When these customs change and the practice comes to indicate the opposite of what it used to, are the fatwas recorded in the books of the jurisconsults rendered thereby defunct, it becoming necessary to issue new fatwas on the basis of the new customs?
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A ‘fatwa’ is simply a considered opinion of a Muslim jurisconsult.
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But they should intervene with fatwas or rulings when legislation arises that affects Islamic issues.
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Moreover, a fatwa issued by one or more muftis is considered to be binding on his/her co-religionists and not on others.
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In May, as you know, the bin Laden group issued a so-called fatwah against the United States, indicating that they had targeted the United States for a systematic campaign of terror.
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Let the scholars who are misguiding the people with their stupid fatwas point to relevant parts of the Quran and sunnah to justify legitimizing misyar marriage.
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In my most recent link farm post, I posted a link to a story about Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani calling a fatwah against homosexuals.
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Ever since the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or death sentence, against Rushdie for what some Muslims called the blasphemies in his fantasy-filled novel "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie has been in hiding under the protection of Britain's security police.
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The "mojahedin will separate your dirty head from your dirty heart" fatwa issued to Storm
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The main reason I haven't been to California before is their impertinent, nannyish tobacco fatwa.
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There was no chance that Khomeini would withdraw the fatwa.
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A "fatwa" is simply a considered opinion of a Muslim jurisconsult.
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He wrote a fatwa on this and gave me the original paper, while keeping a photocopy for his records.
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At that time Khomeini's old friend grand Ayatollah Shariatmadari wrote a fatwa denouncing the events and for the first time used the term revolution using one of the verses of the Quran.
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FARRELL: I'm afraid I have to say that I think if the west started getting into the game of asking Muslim clerics to issue fatwas then it would put the clerics in a very difficult situation and it would kind of invalidate the fatwa if they did it because they would look like they're doing it at the behest of the west.
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This fatwa is an absolute condemnation of terrorism.
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The "mojahedin will separate your dirty head from your dirty heart" fatwa issued to Col. Mustard for:
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As Michiko Kakutani explained in a review of the novel in The New York Times just after the fatwa was issued, one character in the novel is “a businessman turned prophet named Mahound - a figure whom Muslim critics regard as a thinly and perversely disguised representation of the Prophet Mohammed.”
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The fatwa issued against Sania by a section of Muslim clerics is unnecessary and uncalled for.
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The terrorist Mullah O'Reily sat in his throne on the terrorist news channel faux and called his fatwah for years, knowing full well there were repuglican terrorist cells planning to murder Tiller.
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A senior cleric issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against the practice last month.
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The proclamation, which took the form of a fatwa, was endorsed by religious leaders throughout the Sultan's dominions.
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The practice of the Sahaba and the fatwa of all these luminaries is sufficient to establish karahat.
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A fatwa is simply a legal opinion in Islam given by a mufti or other religious leader on a specific issue, and this account describes one with which I was involved.
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Not only have you joined the ranks of the morally obtuse, but you have done so with an arrogance that would astound a mullah issuing a fatwa.
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Even pretending to issue a fatwa to save your asses is ok by allah.
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Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, judge of the Shari'ah Court of the UK said The fatwa is to express the Islamic point of view that those who are insulting to Allah and the messengers of God, they must understand it is a crime.
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THIS SPRING, GRAND Mufti Ali Gomaa sent shivers down the spines of archaeologists and tour operators worldwide as he issued a fatwa calling the statuary haram.
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I also have many muslim relatives who have converted to Christianity, who are banned for life from their loved ones, the fatwa (a decree of slaughter) is out against them, if they are found or seen they are to be killed immediately in the name of Allah the most unmerciful idol god.
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These theives act exactly as mafia, pay us or we'll call a fatwah on our base of terrorist republican evangelical terrorist thugs in their terrorist cells, and boycott your product, and disrupt your business, up to and including murder for profit.
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A "fatwa" is simply a considered opinion of a Muslim jurisconsult.
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