Ali Gomaa
ʿ Ali Gum ʿ a ( Arabic علي جمعة, DMG ʿ Alī Ǧum ʿ a; Egyptian- Arabic ʿ Alī Gum ʿ a; surname often called Gomaa, Goma'a, Dschum'a, Jum'a; * 1952 in Beni Suef ) was the Egyptian Grand Mufti and successor of Ahmad Mohammad Al- Tayyeb. In the Sunni hierarchy of Egypt is only the Sheikh al -Azhar about him.
He is considered one of the most renowned living scholar of traditional Islam and is part of the law school of Shafi ʿ ites to. He is also the author and Khateeb of the Sultan Hasan Mosque in Cairo.
Work
Gum'a has a global presence with statements and fatwas to the Islamic law (Sharia ) in the media. The beating of the wife is allowed in Islamic countries, banned in the West, however. The surgical reconstruction of the hymen it deems allowed.
He is one of the leading Muslims who are for the abolition of female genital mutilation, which is made according to estimates in Egypt, over 90 % of the girls. He said the circumcision was an " aggression" and violates the "dignity and honor of the people." On 22 and 23 November 2006, he initiated by Rüdiger Nehberg international conference of Islamic scholars to " ban the mutilation of the female body through circumcision " in the al -Azhar University in Cairo. He drew from the there almost unanimous fatwa decided that circumcision is incompatible with the teachings of Islam.
Worldwide attention was aroused Gum'a with a fatwa on a Hadith ( " normative tradition " ) related to body secretions of Muhammad. After Muhammad's servant Umm Ayman drank his urine, so as to obtain his blessing. Mohammed told it: " This stomach will not be dragged through the Fire of Hell, because it contains something of our Lord, the messenger of Allah. ' " This blessing, "said Gum'a, " may, with the venerable saliva, sweat blood or urine of the Prophet to be done. "Who was disgusted by the excretions of the Prophet who had to renounce his faith.
The Hadith is the history of religion to classify into a model that is sharply separated in between earthly life and transcendence. Body functions are seen as functions that have their origin in the fact that people take food, incorporate into her body and processed there. This man is permanently held them to turn away from " earthly " and " Diesseitigem ". The fact that this is a negative process, show itself in the fact that bodily functions lead to malodorous secretions generally. In religious rule systems, these precipitates are also classified as ritually polluting. Against this background, made for example in Christianity and Islam the concept emerged that the holiness and the Herausgehobensein religious exemplary people have either by found expression that the body functions at these people did not take place in the usual form ( examples are traditions that Maria or Fatima not menstruated ) or they made out to be exciting without disgust.
After the Islamist terrorist attack against the Coptic Al- Qiddissine Church in Alexandria on 1 January 2011, in which 23 people were killed, Gum'a turned in a commentary in the Berlin Tagesspiegel to the German public, and declared that "Islam absolutely against extremism and terrorism "and that it was necessary to " " understand " factors provide the rationalization of terrorism and extremism, "because otherwise you could never be able to" create this scourge from the world ".
In the case of persecuted because of his anti-Islam tweets Hamsa Kashgari Ali Gum'a has taken the Saudi author towards his critics into custody and called for dialogue on the possibilities offered by social networks.
Miscellaneous
He was one of the 138 signatories of the open letter A Common Word between Us and You (English A Common Word Between Us and You), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (English " Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ... " ) submitted (13 October 2007).