Site Objectives

There are many Fatwa websites. We encourage you to benefit from all of these sites and refer your Islamic matters to sites where you are assured of scholastic and academic Islamic views from the primary and secondary sources of the Shariah as well as that which emanates from juridical inferences. 

This site does not claim to be a final answer or the absolute authority in terms of Islamic Law. We are merely attempting to serve, to possible extents, in regard to Islamic juridical matters to an extent that is limited by time, personnel, monetary resources and available Islamic sources. 

We respect all the juridical opinions which flow from valid Ijtihad based on sound principles of Usul-ul-fiqh (Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence) and other associated Islamic sciences like those of Tafseer and hadith which unitedly form the structure of Islamic Law. 

We accept our deficiencies and acknowledge the scholarship of all Ulema, Muftis, Islamic academics, Muslim professionals as well as others who have contributed to the corpus of Islamic Law.

It is in fact true that the amalgamation of diverse Fatawa, on a single matter, from scholars of all mazahib all around the globe would be beneficial not only to the general Muslim public but also the very class of the Ulema and learned scholars of Islam. It would also help in allowing the expression of diverse thoughts and opinions within a single mazhab (School of Islamic Legal thought) since, very often, the public has found Ulema of the same mazhab to hold two or more diverse views on certain matters of Islamic Law but failed to recognize why the differences arose. They thus argued against each other on non-objective basis and failed to view the inferential process of Islamic Law.

This site is not intended to advocate the random selection of juridical opinion since that could imply, in some matters, to relegating the basic precept and joint principle from which some rulings emanate to be rendered without value, e.g. if you consider pork as Haraam and another natural biological product  from the same animal to be Halaal. It neither advocates selecting an opinion that is found to most comply with the individuals aspirations since that denies the legitimacy of very process of inferring Islamic Law.

Neither do we intend to denigrate the opinions of other scholars. Rather, we wish to create a cohesive unity of thought and understanding of diversities that exist within Islamic Law and upon matters within such law.

Our goals are to create an English Database of Islamic Law that could serve Muftis in the issuing of religious edicts and serve the Ummah by allowing access to authentic material on Islamic Law and translations of the primary and secondary texts of Islamic Law.

More than the ruling, we wish to refer the Ummah to the sources of the law and the inferential process that led to the development of the law or ruling so that people have a greater reliance upon the soundness of the sources and method of inference rather than subjectively accepting opinions of Islamic scholars.

This site is neither intended to grant dominance to any mazhab over another. Material placed on this site purely depends on academic contributions in the various sections and financial implications on the hosting costs.