(© Ilker / sxc.hu) ADA perkembangan terbaru dalam isu fatwa di Malaysia. Tanggal 2 Dis 2008, Utusan Malaysia melaporkan yang Majlis Muzakarah Fatwa Kebangsaan mengaku tidak boleh memaksa kerajaan negeri mewartakan fatwa berkaitan rokok. Alasannya kerana kuasa mewartakan fatwa terletak di bawah Jabatan Mufti Negeri masing-masing. Sebelum ini, ahli parlimen PAS, Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa, […]
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Fatwas shouldn’t be law
By Sisters in Islam(© Hayat Alyaqout / sxc.hu) SISTERS in Islam calls on the government to review the fatwa as an instrument of mandatory and binding rule-making in Malaysia. Our call is made on the grounds that fatwas having the automatic force of law: has no basis in Islamic legal theory and practice; conflict with the Federal Constitution; […]
