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Why a fatwa is not a law
Contemporary questions

A fatwa answers one person's question in one person's circumstances. Circulated without its question it becomes something it was never meant to be, and that is how most quarrels about fatawa begin.

19 July 2026 8 pages Read
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A child copies what he sees performed willingly far sooner than what he is instructed to do. Practical notes on prayer at home, on the difference between reminding and nagging, and on the age at which insistence begins.

8 April 2026 9 pages Read
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