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07-04-2008, 03:00 PM
Helping militants great sin: Saudi mufti
Says their acts not work of true Muslims
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Mufti = Is an scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law (Sharia). And Islamic legal authority who gives a formal legal religious opinion (fatwa) in answer to an inquiry by a private individual or judge. A fatwa usually requires knowledge of the Qur'an and Hadith (narratives concerning the Prophet's life and sayings),
A muftiat or diyanet is a council of muftis. These individuals and councils are capable of issuing fataawa ( the Islamic religious opinions ) .
Saudi Arabia’s top religious official has warned Saudis and foreigners living in the kingdom not to hide information about militants or harbor them, saying the criminal acts committed by the “deviant group” are not the work of true Muslims.
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh issued a statement on Thursday, following a government announcement last week that it is holding 520 suspects, arrested since January, who planned car bomb attacks against oil and security installations.
“..What is done by the deviant group is surely not the work of true Muslims who are supposed to be believers in God , the day of resurrection and the sanctity of the souls and properties of others,” the statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said.
The deviant group is the term used by Saudi officials and scholars to refer to militants allied to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.
“I warn citizens and residents from concealing them and giving them shelter, this would be a great sin.”
The mufti’s comments form part of an ongoing publicity campaign against militant ideology in the kingdom.
“Aggressions against Muslims and occupation of land … cannot be a justification for explosions, denouncing other Muslims as infidels and disobeying the Muslim social consensus,” the mufti said.
“Obeying the Muslim ruler without sedition is as a basic principle of Muslims who follow the path of the Prophet.”
Militants began a campaign to destabilize the Saudi government in 2003 but the violence was brought to an end by security forces in a counter-insurgency campaign.
The last major attack was a failed attempt to storm the world’s largest oil processing plant at Abqaiq in February 2006.
Since then the government says it has arrested hundreds of suspects. Last week, over 701 suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants were detained since January. The ministry of interiors accused some of them of planning attacks against an oil installation in the kingdom.
A ministry statement read out on Saudi television said the detainees were part of a wider plot managed from abroad and involving militant groups seized last year.
The source of this article ( click here ) (http://www.onlines.ws/?p=724)
Says their acts not work of true Muslims
http://www.onlines.ws/wp-content/img/abdaziz-al-shikh.jpg
Mufti = Is an scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law (Sharia). And Islamic legal authority who gives a formal legal religious opinion (fatwa) in answer to an inquiry by a private individual or judge. A fatwa usually requires knowledge of the Qur'an and Hadith (narratives concerning the Prophet's life and sayings),
A muftiat or diyanet is a council of muftis. These individuals and councils are capable of issuing fataawa ( the Islamic religious opinions ) .
Saudi Arabia’s top religious official has warned Saudis and foreigners living in the kingdom not to hide information about militants or harbor them, saying the criminal acts committed by the “deviant group” are not the work of true Muslims.
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh issued a statement on Thursday, following a government announcement last week that it is holding 520 suspects, arrested since January, who planned car bomb attacks against oil and security installations.
“..What is done by the deviant group is surely not the work of true Muslims who are supposed to be believers in God , the day of resurrection and the sanctity of the souls and properties of others,” the statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said.
The deviant group is the term used by Saudi officials and scholars to refer to militants allied to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.
“I warn citizens and residents from concealing them and giving them shelter, this would be a great sin.”
The mufti’s comments form part of an ongoing publicity campaign against militant ideology in the kingdom.
“Aggressions against Muslims and occupation of land … cannot be a justification for explosions, denouncing other Muslims as infidels and disobeying the Muslim social consensus,” the mufti said.
“Obeying the Muslim ruler without sedition is as a basic principle of Muslims who follow the path of the Prophet.”
Militants began a campaign to destabilize the Saudi government in 2003 but the violence was brought to an end by security forces in a counter-insurgency campaign.
The last major attack was a failed attempt to storm the world’s largest oil processing plant at Abqaiq in February 2006.
Since then the government says it has arrested hundreds of suspects. Last week, over 701 suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants were detained since January. The ministry of interiors accused some of them of planning attacks against an oil installation in the kingdom.
A ministry statement read out on Saudi television said the detainees were part of a wider plot managed from abroad and involving militant groups seized last year.
The source of this article ( click here ) (http://www.onlines.ws/?p=724)