Globalni autoritet fetve okvir i pogledi
A global fatwa authority framework and prospects

Summary/Abstract: The menace of extremism and terrorism over the past years has been largely aided through a creation of the chaos of fatwā (legal and moral norm in Islam) by extremists. This is an impudent violation of the venerable traditional institution of fatwā in Islam. With a hidden agenda in mind, the perpetrators of aberrant and unregulated legal pronouncements as well as false and misconstrued Islamic teachings and principles succeeded in some way to disturb the universal Islamic core values of peace, coexistence, stability and security across the globe. Having this in mind, the Dār al-iftāʼ („the House of fatwā“) of Egypt has initiated a global authoritative fatwā institution under a single umbrella organization located in Cairo, Egypt, to generate profoundly reliable fatwās for the sake of refuting false fatwās in the name of Islam. Thus, since its inception, the General Secretariat for Fatwā Authorities Worldwide has held five conferences which have resulted in numerous initiatives, which are designed to correct the false and clarify the true and authentic teachings of Islam. Indeed, it aims to develop tools and offer training for the muftīs, the issuers of fatwā, to enable them to manage fiqh-juristic differences as well as to equip them with reliable references for making fatwā through an acceptable procedure, aiming to regulate a peaceful relationship not only within Muslim communities but also between Muslim and non-Muslim societies as well as a peaceful relationship between Muslims who abode within non-Muslim societies. In all circumstances, the Muslim fatwās must be wisely and peacefully delivered because the very meaning of the term “Islam” is the message of peace. In order to achieve this goal, the Egyptian General Secretariat for Fatwa has initiated an e-platform for training and providing fatwā skills to the muftīs. This e-platform enables muftīs to relate Islamic legal norms to the context of real human life. Besides, the institution of the global Egyptian fatwā offers: ‘a fatwā research center’; ‘a global fatwā index’, ‘a futurology observatory for fatwā’, ‘fatwā services for Muslims living in non-Muslim countries’. This article is about goals and achievements in securing the traditional institution of fatwā from a flagrant deviation and distortion of the fatwā reliability and validity today.

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