A five-member Federal Court bench today heard the appeal although one member of the coram will go on mandatory retirement ...

In 2005, during an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) convention, an official statement was made regarding a fatwa Khamenei signed which stated Islam banned nuclear weapons. “The leader ...

The Zakat Al Fitr has been valued at Dh25 per person, or alternatively, 2.5kg of rice. This charitable donation must be paid ...

Kuwait’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs has issued a directive prohibiting imams and muezzins from using mosques for commercial ...

The Muzakarah Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs Malaysia (MKI Fatwa Committee) has decided that Ahli Sunnah Waljamaah is the country’s official mazhab (school of thought ...

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PETALING JAYA, Feb 28 — The setting of "zakat fitrah” (personal tithe) rate based on rice grades will be decided by the Fatwa ...

AI machine serves the faithful in several languages via integrated database A worshipper approaches the Manara robot introduced in the Grand Mosque. Supplied Cairo: A sophisticated robot has been ...

The Ministry of Islamic Affairs has issued a fatwa prohibiting the use of colored pebbles (salboukh) for decorating graves, ...

PETALING JAYA: Perlis has become the first state to issue a fatwa declaring Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISB) as a deviant sect.“The religious decree will be gazetted soon to ...

The Mosques Sector of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs has called on imams and muezzins to comply with a fatwa issued by the Ministry’s ...