{"id":7474,"date":"2014-02-21T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2014-02-21T16:47:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:47:37","slug":"what-is-a-fatwa-and-its-implication-on-muslims-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/what-is-a-fatwa-and-its-implication-on-muslims-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Fatwa and its implication on Muslims in general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 01577<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by <\/strong>Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Question:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">What is a Fatwa and its implication on Muslims in general<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.6em;\">Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bismillah.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bismillah\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6518 alignnone\" height=\"50\" src=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bismillah.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"267\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">A fatwa is &quot;the legal guidance of a pious and knowledgeable scholar on any matter of Islamic law, based on the Quran and Hadith&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The main difference between a Muslim judge passing a judgement and the fatwa of a competent Mufti is that a Muslim judges ruling is binding whilst a fatwa is not binding, not even on the individual who asked the question as he is free to take advice from another Mufti and act upon his opinion. (Fatawa Nuwaisi Ki Rehnuma Usuul p.58)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Only Allah Knows Best<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 01577 Answered by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah Question: What is a Fatwa and its implication on Muslims in general Answer: In the name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}