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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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1. How to get a Fatwa via email?

This service is available via the Department`s Electronic Website.

2. What are the official working hours of the Department?

8:30am-3:30pm, Sunday-Thursday.

3. Is privacy protected?

Fatwas are delivered with absolute secrecy, but the Department`s Website has the right to publish questions and answers after deleting personal information.

4. Which Madhab is followed by the Department?

Click the link to view the adopted Fatwa approach.

5. How to make a complaint against a certain service?

Use complaints and suggestions service.

6. Are services paid for?

All Fatwas and services are free of charge.

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I have asked a marriage official to conclude my marriage since I have no proxy and, being an adult, I can act as the proxy of myself, but he refused. What should I do?

All perfect praise be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds. May Allah`s peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Mohammad and upon all his family and companions.

In order for a marriage to be valid there must be a Wali (Guardian) for the woman: father, brother, paternal uncle or any paternal relative. If there isn`t any, then the judge can act as the woman`s guardian and conclude the marriage contract. And Allah the Almighty knows best.

• What is the ruling on singing and listening to it while accompanied and unaccompanied by musical instruments?
Singing and listening to it unaccompanied by musical instruments is permissible as long as it isn`t practiced as a profession and is done by a man to other men, or a woman to other women with maintaining that no temptations are involved. The words of the song should be Islamic, and if temptation was likely to happen, then the singing becomes definitely forbidden. Temptation here means: whatever leads to committing a sin. In Islamic Sharia, singing accompanied by musical instruments such as the lute and the like is forbidden, and listening to it as well. The reason behind that is the fact that the musical instrument itself is forbidden. However, striking the tambourine and singing Islamic songs are permissible in weddings, circumcisions and the like.

• Should a prayer performer who forgets to offer the middle Tashahod(saying ash-hadu anala ilaha ila-alah) offer Sujood As-Sahw(prostration of forgetfulness)?
He/she should offer two prostrations of forgetfulness at the end of the prayer.

• Is Zakah due on a woman`s saved gold?
Zakah(obligatory charity) is due on saved gold if it reached Nissab(minimum amount liable for Zakah), and a lunar year had lapsed over owning it. The due Zakah is (2.5%).

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