His Excellency Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, Secretary General of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA), chaired the 72nd weekly meeting of directors of departments, on Monday, 03 Ramadan 1443H corresponding to 04 April 2022G, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat in Jeddah.

At the beginning of the meeting, His Excellency welcomed the attendees and thanked them for participating in the periodic meetings during which various issues of the Academy are discussed in order to make decisions about them. Then His Excellency spoke about the speech of the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia regarding the approval of holding a symposium on stunning poultry and called on the departments to begin preparation for the symposium to be held at the end of next May, stressing the importance of continuous cooperation and coordination between departments to ensure its success.

His Excellency also spoke about the need to work to support the Academy’s Waqf fund by communicating with Awqaf and charitable institutions and addressing the Shariah bodies of Islamic banks in the hope of obtaining their financial support to enable the Academy’s General Secretariat to continue its progress in advancing the Academy to achieve its goals and ambitions.

The meeting then discussed the items of decisions issued by the previous meeting, and several new decisions were issued, the most important of which are:

• Finalizing the research papers of the stunning poultry symposium and preparing the gift bag and its contents for the participants, well in advance of the symposium.
• Preparing the opening remarks, the symposium program, and arranging the sessions according to the design adopted in the symposium on cryptocurrencies.
• Communicating with the translators of the book of resolutions and recommendations to abide by the terms of the contracts signed between them and the Academy.
• Preparing a letter addressed to Sheikh Suleiman Al-Rajhi’s Waqf Foundation regarding the request for support for the Academy’s Waqf fund.
• Starting preparations for holding a specialized symposium on wills, by preparing a list of writers to prepare research papers on the aforementioned symposium.