Egypt’s Al-Azhar issues fatwa on Pakistani president's request, permits suspension of Friday prayers

[jericho]

Sadly many many people this this is an opportunity to show how strong their emaan is. However endangering lives and misleading people is against islam and criminal.

This 100%. I am really worried about Pakistan because of actions of misguided folks. I really hope this virus will not spread too much and overwhelm the country. Everyone have to play their part (stay home, wash hands, minimal contact with people and surfaces, etc).

 

[M.AsfandYar]

In Bahria town Islamabad. Day before yesterday immediately after ahzan, they moadan announced that after jamat prayers people should go home and pray....how stupid is that?
Sadly many many people this this is an opportunity to show how strong their emaan is. However endangering lives and misleading people is against islam and criminal. These molvis should get double and severe punishments.

Now Bahria Town Phase 4 is under complete lockdown, as Covid just tore through it. It spread through a mosque from a recent arrival from France.

 

[El Sidd]

Alvi and our handsome PM IK should issue the fatwa...Al Azhar is a nobody.

Deoband and Barreily are names of Indian cities speaking of nobodies.

 

[newb3e]

for our Mullahs (not every) Masjid is more like a dukan and if customers stop conig to Masjid they wont get halwa!

 

[Trango Towers]

Now Bahria Town Phase 4 is under complete lockdown, as Covid just tore through it. It spread through a mosque from a recent arrival from France.

Rally I am in Bahria phase 1 extention. I have nit heard anything

 

[ShaikhKamal]

Pakistan had to request Al-Azhar University, one of the seats of Sunni Islam jurisprudence, to issue a fatwa, a religious ruling, permitting suspension of Friday prayers to control the spread of deadly coronavirus across Pakistan. This seems to show that the Pakistan's Muslim clerics have lost the respect of Pakistani government due to their backwardness.

 

[El Sidd]

Muslim clerics have lost the respect of Pakistani government due to their backwardness.

not one of them ever said you cannot go the moon

 

[M.AsfandYar]

Rally I am in Bahria phase 1 extention. I have nit heard anything

I heard about this today, haven't been able to confirm. The friends who live there were already out of there. I live in Naval Anchorage, Phase 1 and we are practically locked in. Cant Exit. Small community, no known case here yet. Wouldn't be surprised if its locked down.
Could very well be true. No way to confirm the spread without tests which the government for some unfathomable reason is not doing, case in point Bara Koh.

 

[Trango Towers]

I am heard about this today, haven't been able to confirm. The friends who live there were already out of there. I live in Naval Anchorage, Phase 1 and we are practically locked in. Cant Exit. Small community, no known case here yet. Wouldn't be surprised if its locked down.
Could very well be true. No way to confirm the spread without tests which the government for some unfathomable reason is not doing, case in point Bara Koh.

Government doesnt have the means and idiots are still outside as it's a joke to them. Satellite town has confirmed cases

 

[k s ahmed]

great details.
please mention some sources / books. i would like to read too..
al-azhar is not shia/ismailee now , i beleive. so something must have happened somewhere.

Let me first say that my knowledge about Al-Azhar, beyond what I have already alluded to, is meagre. But when we talk about Salah al-Din in Egypt we need to distinguish between Salah al-Din the commander/governor of Egypt and Salah al-Din the ruler of Egypt. These are two different instances. In the first instance, Salah al-Din was following the commands of Noor al-Din Zangi, who was staunchly Sunni. However, where Noor al-Din Zangi showed less affinity for the Fatimids (or other Shias), Salah al-Din largely appears sympathetic or, at least, accomodating. To this extent, he defied Noor al-Din Zangi's orders to issue a declaration of abrogation of Fatimid Khilafat during Friday prayers after Egypt had completely fallen under the Zangi rule. This is where the gulf between Noor al-Din Zangi and otherwise very loyal Salah al-Din started to appear and widen. The deed was then assigned to an unknown person who made the said announcement on Noor al-Din Zangi's behalf after one fine Friday prayers. Salah al-Din had struck a friendship with the young but critically ailing last Khalifa of the Fatimids and ordered everyone not to inform the Khalifa of what had happened after the prayers and to let him die thinking he was the Khalifa till the end. If the conversion of Al-Azhar to Sunni fiqah took place during this period it might have been done so on the orders of Noor al-Din Zangi. As I said, keeping the abrogation of Fatimid Khilafat aside, Salah al-Din was loyal to Noor al-Din Zangi and took orders from him. But this is purely speculative and I have not come across any evidence for this.

In the second instance, the governing authority over Egypt by default fell to Salah al-Din over time. Even with the worsening of relations between the two of them over the abrogation issue Noor al-Din Zangi did not replace Salah al-Din. A short time later, Noor al-Din Zangi died and the rulership over his kingdom that included most of the major settlements of the Middle East, including the three Holy cities, fell to Salah al-Din. Outside of Wikipedia, I have not read any conversions (forced or voluntary) to Sunnism of the Egyptian population and Egyptian institutions by Salah al-Din, including the conversion of Al-Azhar to Sunni fiqah and burning of its books/written material (Shia and/or secular), both during his commandership/governorship and absolute rule. There are a lot of distorted narratives here thanks to the conflicting nature of our religious sects. I will need a little time to dig out information on how Al-Azhar became a predominantly Sunni institution. But in any case, its foundations - undoubtedly and undisputedly - have been laid down by the Fatimids, who were Ismaili Shias.

 

[SABRE]

great details.
please mention some sources / books. i would like to read too..
al-azhar is not shia/ismailee now , i beleive. so something must have happened somewhere.

Start with "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes" by Amin Maalouf. It's concise yet very informative and a good read.

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

There was no need for President to consult Al azhar unversity. Decision has to be taken by ourselves. Even than president couldn't reach to any decision after meeting with those useless sunni maulvis yesterday. Now other provinces are following footsteps of Sindh because of lack of clarity given by festal govt at every matter.