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- Qualities of a Successful Khateeb (Islamic Preacher)
  Date Added: 06-07-2025
- The Noble Prophetic Migration: A Journey of Building and Belonging
  Date Added: 01-07-2025
- The Prophetic Migration... A Journey of Building a Firmly Established State
  Date Added: 01-07-2025
- The Mufti is he who Issues a Fatwa that Leads to your Salvation, not one that ...
  Date Added: 24-06-2025
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Islamic Studies and Research:

The Ifta’ Law number (60) of the year 2006, and the modifying Law number (4) of the year 2009 state that a Board is to be established in the Kingdom and called “Board of Iftaa’, Islamic Studies and Research,” and that the General Mufti (who is now Shaikh Abdel Kareem El-Khasawneh) is the Head of the Board. The following are members: ... Read More
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- Resolution No.(329): "Ruling on Exchanging a Waqf "
  Date Added: 09-07-2025
- Resolution No. (328): "Sighting the Crescent Moon of the Month of Shawwal, 1446 ...
  Date Added: 13-05-2025
- Resolution No.(327): "The Amount of Zakat-Ul-Fitr and Saum Fidyah for the Year ...
  Date Added: 03-03-2025
- Resolution No.(326): "Sighting the Crescent of Ramadan, 1446 AH"
  Date Added: 03-03-2025
- Resolution No.(325): "The Amount of Zakat-ul-Fitr and Saum Fidyah for the Year ...
  Date Added: 21-03-2024
- Resolution No.(324) (2/2024): "Sighting the Crescent of Ramadan, 1445 AH"
  Date Added: 21-03-2024
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Iftaa' Department
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About the General Fatwa Department

The Fatwa Department of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was founded in 1921. Since its formation, it has relied upon Hanafi fatwas which were in use during the Ottoman era, and the Mufti has answered the questions of members of the public, whether they relate to worship or financial transactions or personal statutes, and it has assigned a mufti to each judge in cities both large and small. The judge seeks the mufti's assistance in solving social problems, just as the mufti refers to the judge matters which are not within the mufti's jurisdiction and which require evidence and witnesses....
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Islamic Ruling on Performing the Funeral Prayer Multiple Times

What is the Islamic ruling on having multiple Imams lead the funeral prayer for a deceased person as a form of honoring them and seeking blessings from the imams who lead the prayer?

The Manner of Funeral Prayer

Would you please clarify the manner of funeral prayer?

Priority in Arranging Corpses towards Qibla in Funeral Prayer

When there is more than one funeral, which corpse should face Qibla (Ka`ba) first?

It is Permissible to Offer the Absentee Funeral Prayer

What is the ruling on offering the absentee funeral prayer although he was prayed on?

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Qualities of a Successful Khateeb (Islamic Preacher)

The Noble Prophetic Migration: A Journey of Building and Belonging

The Prophetic Migration... A Journey of Building a Firmly Established State

The Mufti is he who Issues a Fatwa that Leads to your Salvation, not one that ...

Iftaa' Board

Islamic Studies and Research:

What is the virtue of the day of Ashura and the ruling on fasting ...

What is the ruling on speech that mocks some jurisprudential ...

Is it permissible for a charitable organization to receive Zakat ...

What is the ruling on a young man proposing to a woman in a ...

What is the ruling on someone who stirs political disagreements ...

What is the ruling on converting photographs into drawings using ...