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Ismail ibn Musa Menk (born 27 June 1975), commonly known as Mufti Menk, is a Zimbabwean Islamic speaker. He is the Grand Mufti [ 5 ] [ 6 ] of Zimbabwe , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and head of the fatwa department for the Council of Islamic Scholars of Zimbabwe.
Nine of the fourteen Malaysian states have their own sultan; each of these nine states have their own mufti who usually controls the Islamic Council or Islamic Department of the state. At the national level, the Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs together with the five officials appointed by the National ...
Yasir Qadhi (formerly known by his kunya Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi) (born January 30, 1975) is a Pakistani American Muslim scholar and theologian. [8] He is dean of The Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center in Plano, Texas. [9]
Javed Ahmed Ghamidi was born as Muhammad Shafique (later he renamed himself as Javed Ghamidi) on 18 April 1952 [8] to a Kakazai family in a village called Jiwan Shah, Arifwala in (District Pakpattan), Punjab, Pakistan. [9]
Khan was born in 1978, in East Germany to a Pakistani Punjabi family and spent his preschool years in the former East Berlin. [6] [7] His father then worked for the Pakistan Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where Khan attended the Pakistan Embassy school from grades 2 to 8.
A mufti (/ ˈ m ʌ f t i /; Arabic: مفتي, listen ⓘ) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion on a point of Islamic law . [1] [2] The act of issuing fatwas is called iftāʾ. [3] Muftis and their fatwas played an important role throughout Islamic history, taking on new roles in the modern era. [4] [5]
Al-Hakeem has said of the Islamic practice of ruqyah, a form of litany associated with the exorcism of evil spirits in Islam, that "it is the recitation of the Qur'an, seeking of refuge in Allah, remembrance and supplications that are used as a means of treating sicknesses and other problems, as the Qur'an is a source of healing". [6]
The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state. The office originated in the early modern era in the Ottoman Empire and has been later adopted in a number of modern countries.