Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas
The Standing Committee on Legal Issues (Arabic اللجنة الدائمة للبحوث العلمية والإفتاء al - Ladschna ad Da'ima li - l - al - ʿ Buhuth Ilmiyya wa'l- Ifta ' al - DMG Laǧnat ad -Da ʾ ima li - l - al Buḥūṯ - Ilmīya ʿ wa'l- Ifta ʾ ) is an advisory office for Islamic legal issues ( fatwa ) in Saudi Arabia.
The committee was introduced in 1971 under King Faisal with the Royal Decree 137/1, its existence and necessity is established under Article 45 of the basic order by the committee is explicitly stated reasons. Its tasks are to the king concerning fiqh of Islamic Law and legal issues in the field and to discuss aqeedah ( belief ). The committee has no power over laws passed, it only advises the King.
A further object is to be the population in answering questions relevant. The most important literature of the committee are the two legal question files Fatawa al - Ladschna ad Da'ima and Fatawa Islamiyya.
Under the former chairman of the committee, Abd al - Aziz ibn Baz, it came under heavy criticism in the local population and in parts of the Muslim abroad, ibn Baz had the stationing of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, on behalf of the Committee considers lawful and thus " blessed" the decision of the Saudi government subsequently.
Members
The committee consists of five leading religious scholars in a function Alims or muftis and the chairman, currently (04 /2008 ), the Committee provided by:
- Abd al- Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash- Sheikh ( born 1943) ( Chairman)
- Abdullah ibn Ghudaian ( born 1926, died 2010)
- Abdullah ibn Quod ( born 1922)
- Abdullah ibn Munai ( born 1928)
- Abdullah Abu Zaid ( born 1944, died 2008)
- Saleh ibn Fawzan - ( born 1933)
Sources and methods the course of justice
The committee is Sunni and draws on the sources Qur'an and Sunnah, but it does not apply the Sunni schools of law, it believes one must be observed without the opinions of earlier scholars - directly to the sources of return, ignoring the way the law schools recourse. Adhering to a law school is neither compulsory nor a recommendation, because each law school did right and wrong views and judgments. The greatest consensus among law schools with respect to legal issues is achieved with the Hanbali. The views of the schools of law are involved in the argument, if they support or share their own views. The Committee is strongly influenced salafitisch according to the state religion in Saudi Arabia and politically royalist oriented.
The decision to a legal question depends on the majority on the committee, it may takes no consensus be reached, the opinion of the Chairman shall.