RIYADH – Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti and Chairman of the Council of Senior Scholars Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh has reaffirmed that it is not permissible for COVID-19 patients to mix with others. He called upon all the people in the Kingdom to strictly comply with the precautionary measures ...

ISLAMABAD – A seminary announced on Monday that receiving vaccine against novel coronavirus is legal and permissible in accordance with Islamic Shariah. Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and middle East Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi addressing a ...

RIYADH – Receiving the coronavirus vaccine while fasting does not invalidate the fast, Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti said ahead of the holy month of Ramzan. “The Covid-19 vaccine does not invalidate the fast of a fasting person because it is not considered as food and drink. The vaccine is ...

DUBAI - A week after launching ‘Virtual Ifta’, the world’s first service using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to issue *fatwas*, the first AI *fatwa* was issued on Thursday. The first AI *fatwa *has declared that the direct competitor of the AI firm that launched Virtual Ifta is ...

JAKARTA: An Indonesian group on Wednesday slammed a 'fatwa' on a hugely-popular but brutal online game, citing insult to their religion and making players addicted and violent. The religious edict, issued in conservative Aceh province, comes after officials in Iraq, Nepal, and India's Gujarat ...

ISLAMABAD - Things have been going a little fast in the technology landscape in Pakistan with a link sighting app launched plus plans to introduce moboe payments. To tone things down a bit, a renowned religious scholar Mufti Naeem has said that during Aitekaf, if you keep your phone with you, it ...

ISLAMABAD - Mohammad Tawhidi, a peace activist and reformist Imam in Australia, has claimed that a Pakistani preacher issued a fatwa calling for him to be killed. Sharing pictures of the facebook post in which a Mufti Ahmed Raza Sialvi apparently issued a fatwa for his death, Tawhidi said that he ...

KABUL: In Afghanistan, religious scholars from Nangarhar issued a fatwa on Saturday against poppy cultivation and use of drugs, saying that these two acts are forbidden in Islam. Figures released by the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics and UN Office on Drugs and Crime in November 2017 show that ...

LAHORE – Imran Khan has clarified his position over his ‘controversial’ action at a Sufi shrine in Punjab, following a religio-political storm that has gripped the social media since last night. “Sufism speaks about removing the “mein” the ego in an individual, people see these things ...

KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned Monday’s suicide bomb attack outside a peace tent gathering of Muslim clerics in Kabul and backed their fatwa against suicide attacks, saying they violated the tenets of Islam. The bomb killed 14 people, including seven clerics, and was the ...