Senior Egyptian and world Muftis and scholars praised on Thursday the success of the international conference for Iftaa held under the title “The Fatawa: Current Realities and Future Prospects”.
They called for organizing such conferences periodically after several important recommendations and initiative emerged from the international Iftaa conference held under the auspices of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Monday.
Also, they called on the Egyptian Dar al-Ifta (Ifta House) to prevent private TV channels from broadcasting and propagating controversial Fatwas (religious edicts) and stick to the conference's recommendations to combat false fatwas.
They warned of the gravity of imposing extremist ideologies on the security and stability of Islamic states.
Former Maldives president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom asserted that the international Iftaa conference, witnessed a high turnout, showed the great status Egypt enjoys in the Islamic world and the role could be played by Egypt during the coming period to combat the extremist ideology of terror groups.
For his part, Mufti of Al Quds and Palestine Mohamed Hussein said the Iftaa conference urged the participants to work jointly to stop propagating aberrant Fatwas or these issued by non specialized bodies working to inflame conflicts among Muslims.
The international Iftaa conference asserted the need to renew the current Fatwas according to rules and principles of Islamic Sharia and in the light of the great developments in the era in the technology, communications, Industry and medical fields, former Mufti Ali Gomaa said.
Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Al Haddad, Grand Mufti and head of the fatwa department at the Dubai Fatwa Centre said that Egypt makes great leap in the intellectual and religious areas as evidenced by the success of the international Iftaa conference to combat extremism.
For his part, Lebanese Mufti Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian said the international Iftaa conference led the Islamic nation how to face the abnormal Fatwas in the light of the current political, economic, security and ethical challenges.
Furthermore, Chairman of the Islamic High Council of Australia (Darulfatwa) Salim Alwan said the conference sought to foil all attempts to counterfeit Sharia laws and distort moderate Islam, as well as facing terror groups' schemes to attract young people and ruin their brains with their extremist ideologies.
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