Saleh Al-Fawzan

Is an Islamic scholar in Saudi Arabia; Salih ibn Fawzan ibn Abdullah al - Fawzan ( born 1933 in Saudi Arabia Arabic صالح بن فوزان بن عبد الله الفوزان, DMG Salih Fawzaan b b ʿ Abd Allāh al - Fawzaan. . ). He is a member of the Standing Committee on Legal Issues and a leading proponent of Wahhabism. From the Protection of the Constitution, he is classified as a pioneer of Islamic extremism and jihadism.

Training

Al - Fawzan was born in 1933. His family belongs to the tribe of Asa Syamasiyyah. His father died when he was a child, and he was raised by his family. He studied the Qur'an, basic reading and writing under the guidance of Imam Qari Areas, Shaykh Sulaiman ibn Hammud Thallal Ath, who later became a judge in Dariyyah in the province of Qasim was.

He then studied at the State Madrasa Asa Syamasiyyah, which opened in 1948. He finished his studies at the Faishaliyyah School in Buraidah in 1950 and was appointed as a teacher for children. He continued his studies at the Institute of Education in Buraidah continued when it opened in 1952, and graduated from in 1956. He then studied further at the Faculty of Shariah at the Islamic University of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud in Riyadh and graduated from in 1960. He then received his master's degree and a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence ( fiqh ).

Characteristic of al - Fawzan was studying with a number of Salafi Islamic scholars such as Aziz ibn Abd al- Baz and Muhammad al-Amin ash- Shanqiti (d. 1972). His teachers also included Abdullah bin Humaid, Afifi Abdurrazaq, Salih bin Abd al - Sukayti, Salih bin Ibrahim al - Bulayhi, Muhammad ibn Fadhilatus Subayyil, Abdullah bin Salih al - Khulaifi, Ibrahim bin Abdul- Muhsin al - Obeid, Hamood Ibn Uqla Ash- Salih ibn Ali and Shu'aybi to - Naashir.

Offices

After studying at the Faculty of Sharia, he was appointed lecturer at the Institute of Education Riyadh, then he moved to the Faculty of Islamic doctrine. Finally, he was teaching at a university in the Faculty Usul ud- Din. Al- Fawzan is a member of the Standing Committee for Legal Affairs, also influential in the " High Council of Islamic scholars " and in other institutions.

Positions

The religious positions of al - Fawzan include particularly significant, since it incorporated via books, for which he is responsible in the classroom in Saudi Arabia and in Saudi schools abroad. Saudi government leaders have indeed repeatedly stated that curricula were changed, the school books of al - Fawzan, however, continue to be used. From his textbook to Tawheed, a commentary on the "Book of Monotheism " by Muhammad ibn Abd al - Wahhab, it appears that al - Fawzan designates the majority of the Muslims as polytheists. Therefore they could be dispossessed and killed by "true Muslims ".

Liberal Muslims declared al - Fawzan in a fatwa in July 2007 to apostates: "To call a liberal Muslim, is a contradiction in terms (...) one should regret such thoughts before God to a real Moslem to be (... ) He who wants freedom with laws that are solely made ​​by people who rebelled against the law of God. " In a fatwa declared al - Fawzan that Muslims who do not perform the prayer, not likely to be hired as laborers. these are likely to be killed because they would oppose the will of God.

According to Al- Fawzan, it is impossible with other faiths to lead friendly relations, as it was obliged as a Muslim to hate other religions. It would be legally allowed to accept gifts from them, but not to congratulate them for a festive occasion.

For slavery represents al - Fawzan on a tape position " Slavery is part of Islam" and "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long as there is Islam."

In 2008, he told the newspaper Al Madina that the " sorcerer " who read horoscopes in the Arab satellite television deserve the death penalty for this crime. The caller should get after her death, not an Islamic burial more.

In July 2011, al - Fawzan turned in a fatwa against plans by the Saudi government to limit by a minimum the child marriages. According to Al- Fawzan fathers have the right to give their daughters in marriage at any age, even if they are still in the cradle. The husbands are likely to be intimate with them but only if the girls can wear their body weight.