Dubai: Over 127,000 fatwas issued in 2020 amid Covid pandemic
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Dubai’s Islamic affairs department issued over 127,000 fatwas last year. A fatwa is a ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognised authority, which in Dubai’s case is the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai (IACAD).
The rulings issued in 2020 varied from oral ones to written and those issued digitally, a top IACAD official said on Monday. The department had also issued fatwas related to Covid-19, including those on praying at home; frontliners offering prayers, etc.
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“Efforts of the Islamic Affairs Department to start several integration schools is one good move.
“In addition, private schools, at the curriculum level, has included the Quran memorisation system. Academic and diniah subjects (religion) is taught in this school which will produce students who integrate in the context of addressing the current education system,” he said.
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Dr Aliakbar, who is also the Sabah PAS Secretary, suggested that schools like this be established in either kindergarten, primary and secondary schools.
He gave an example of the Tunas Islam Orphanage (Pasti) which has 8,000 students throughout the State.
Religious freedom takes a dive across Asia
World s largest democracy joins communist and Muslim-majority nations as the region s worst offenders
Indian Dalit Christians hold a 2012 protest in New Delhi for equal rights. India has joined a list of worst offenders for religious persecution in a report by a US government agency. (Photo: AFP)
It was all bad news for Asian nations in the annual United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report, with four more countries India, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia sliding down into the two lowest, most persecuting categories, joining Myanmar, China and North Korea.
The report certainly backs up the consistent themes of increasing persecution across the region that have been covered by journalists for UCA News and its sister publication, La Croix International.
Johor ruler orders Islamic affairs dept to probe woman in Punjab wedding
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Johor ruler Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar has ordered the state s Islamic Affairs Department to probe claims that a Johorean woman had a wedding ceremony in India not in accordance with Islamic law.
The ruler said he was saddened by such claims and wanted the authorities to determine whether this was true through the woman s family and the Malaysian embassy in India. I believe we will all know the.
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