تضارب الفتوى عبر الوسائل الإلكترونية وأثرها السلبي على عامة المسلمين: مشكلة وحل

Abstract

The fatwa occupies a great position in Islam as it guides the Muslims in daily life to implement Islamic Shariah in true sense. Because Allah SWT has commanded the general Muslims to resort to the scholars if they need to know anything about the rules of the Islam. Thus, Muslims began to be keen to ask questions to muftis and scholars in all successive ages, even if they arrived in the modern era in which the field of transactions expanded locally and globally and many new issues have appeared that were not before. As the sources of fatwas came out from mosques, madrasahs, and the Islamic institution and entered to satellite channels, via the Internet, and on the pages of newspapers and magazines, so the number of fatwas increased due to the large number of modern calamities and the number of muftis increased in the Islamic society. The contradiction and differences in Fatwas appear largely because of easiness of delivery of fatwa over electronic media, some of which contradict the established rules of Islamic Sharia. The research deals with this phenomenon because it is an important issue in Islam. Moreover, the inconsistency and confusion in the fatwa creates divisions and leaves clear traces of discord and disagreement among Muslims. The research aims to clarify this issue by defining the concept of the fatwa, its status and rule, identifying the conflict of the fatwa through electronic media and its negative effects in the Muslim society, and explaining the ways to treat it in the light of the teachings of Islam.