Ayatollah Mobaleghi to Represent Iran at Int’l Islamic Fiqh Academy Meeting
He will exchange views with the participating jurists from other Muslim world countries about the issues on the agenda of the gathering.
Ayatollah Mobaleghi is a Kharej Fiqh instructor and an international figures at the Qom Islamic Seminary. He is also a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts.
The meeting will be launched in Jeddah today and run until February 23.
It will study contemporary issues and problems and consider them by performing collective jurisprudential reasoning (ijtihad) in order to clarify their appropriate Shariah rulings.
It investigates several vital issues with social and economic dimensions that require special jurisprudential treatment, including "clarifying the Shariah ruling on compulsory education (religious and worldly) for both males and females in Islam", "the impact of Corona pandemic on the Shariah rulings on worships, family and crime", "the impact of Corona pandemic on the legal rulings on contracts, transactions, and financial liabilities", and "the ruling on performing prayer (Salah) in a language other than Arabic with or without excuse and the ruling on following a prayer by listening to the mobile phone or the radio."
The session also discusses "clarifying the rulings concerning social media and its principles", "Shariah's vision to address the phenomenon of people of unknown parentage", "the ruling on abortion due to rape or sex change in Islam" and "the role of the Islamic social financing mechanisms in supporting humanitarian work in areas of conflicts and disasters."
The International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA) is a universal scholarly organization and a subsidiary organ of the OIC. It was established following a resolution at the Third Islamic Summit in January 1981, with a headquarters in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The IIFA's members are eminent Muslim jurists, scholars, researchers, and intellectuals who specialize in jurisprudential, cultural, educational, scientific, economic, and social fields of knowledge from different parts of the Muslim world.
The IIFA is entrusted with elucidating the rulings and provisions of Shariah on issues of concern to Muslims worldwide, in complete independence and based on the Holy Quran and the Noble Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH). It also studies contemporary life issues, performing an authentic and effective Ijtihad, aiming at providing solutions stemming from Islamic heritage and open to the developments of Islamic thought.
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