Talk:Yusuf al-Qaradawi

NPOVing

MathKnight, on cooler reflection I will try to assume the best of you and believe that you somehow accidentally missed Qaradawi's response to the Iraq endorsement claims, despite reading far enough through the MEMRI article to reach both the other clerics' section and the "Elaph" bit near the end. But what phialism) as the introductory sentence you attempted to insert? ThinkPink's reversion was entirely understandable, although even his versiossible excuse can there be for such blatant POV (not to mention parocon was by no means fully NPOVed. - Mustafaa 17:08, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

First of all, I'd like to say that the above comment is false. Just follow the links provided and read the articles. Getting to the point, this article says that Shaykh Faraz Rabbani is an Islamic scholar; however, if you read his biography, he is actually a student and, to my knowledge, not a very well-established authority on Islamic affairs. Shaykh Faraz seems to be popular on Wikipedia articles on Islam, somehow. However, please investigate the matter appropriately and change the article accordingly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.23.219.122 (talk) 10:10, 20 May 2006

On the POV dispute

The POV dispute has not been discussed for over a month. So I want to consult with users to see if they think it is still valid. In any case we should try to resolve it.

If everyone agrees with me that there isn't much to dispute than I will remove it(assuming that someone didn't already}.

--Yster talk 02:50, 11 May 2011

Jajircewar al qaradawi

Tabbas sheikh yusuf al qaradawi mutunne jajirtace a bangare daya shafi addinin musulci — Preceding unsigned comment added by 102.88.34.86 (talk) 21:20, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Someone should improve the "Female genital mutilation (FGM)" paragraph

At 19:42 on 12 July 2017, someone (a member of the Muslim Brotherhood?) cleaned al-Qaradawi's reputation by deleting information about al-Qaradawi's historical support for Female Genital Mutilation. Instead, they replaced the paragraph with:

Qaradawi said that female genital mutilation surgery is forbidden in Islam. He called for the termination and ban of "female circumcision" in some parts of the Muslim world, especially in rural Africa where most still practice it. His views were supported by Sheikhs in Al-Azhar.[106]

The editor left an unreliable citation of a Muslim Brotherhood website.

I urge an administrator to replace the above paragraph with something like this:

Al Qaradawi recommended female circumcision (Female Genital Mutilation) throughout his career until he changed his mind in 2009, at age 83.

In his 1987 book “Modern Fatwas”, Al-Qaradawi opined that female circumcision was “not obligatory”, however he recommended female circumcision arguing "[female] circumcision is better for a woman's health and it enhances her conjugal relations with her husband" and "whoever finds it serving the interest of his daughters should do it, and I personally support this under the current circumstances in the modern world".

In 2006, al-Qaradawi attended a conference at al-Azhar University of high-ranking Muslim scholars where FGM was discussed where the goal of the conference was to declare FGM to be incompatible with the ethics of Islam. Al-Qaradawi criticized the fact that the conference was paid for by a foreign institution, and he complained that the conference title, "The Prohibition of Violation of the Female Body through Circumcision" was biased and presumptuous. At that time, Al-Qaradawi did not give a fatwa to prohibit Female Genital Mutilation, instead he urged that doctors ought to have the last word about female circumcision.

In 2007, in a landmark ruling on the practice, the authoritative Al-Azhar Supreme Council of Islamic Research in Cairo declared that Female Genital Mutilation has "no basis in core Islamic law or any of its partial provisions". Egyptian Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa also confirmed in 2007: "It's prohibited, prohibited, prohibited." At that time, Al-Qaradawi did not give a fatwa to prohibit Female Genital Mutilation.

In March 2009, FGM activists Rüdiger Nehberg and Tarafa Baghajati met with al-Qaradawi in Qatar and persuaded him to change his mind about Female Genital Mutilation. He gave a fatwa stating the genital mutilation of girls is forbidden as "devil's work" because it is against the ethics of Islam. "Since factual examination by neutral experts and specialists […] has proved that female genital mutilation […] causes bodily and spiritual damage to the female sex and seriously harms a woman’s married life, this custom must be stopped…" He explained his change of mind: "If scholars before our time had found out what we now know, they would have changed their minds because they always sought the truth."

In 2017, with the publication of a new Arabic edition of his book "The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam” (originally published in 1960), Qaradawi opined that female circumcision is forbidden in Islam.

I added the final sentence because I have heard from Professor Tariq Ramadan that in 2017, al-Qaradawi edited his book "The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam" to reflect his change of mind, opining that FGM is forbidden in Islam. I cannot find a citation for it, but perhaps someone can provide a citation.

QamarBurtuqali (talk) 10:03, 29 November 2023 (UTC)QamarBurtuqali

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