Under the chairmanship of the Secretary-General of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, H.E. Prof. Koutoub Sano, the sixth weekly meeting of the Academy’s departments was held on Sunday 29 Rabi ‘Al-Awal 1442, corresponding to 15 November 2020.
His Excellency opened the meeting by inviting the participants to continue the work and efforts to realize the vision of the Academy and to fulfill its mission and objectives by diligently pursuing and coordinating hard work to implement its programs and activities. His Excellency addressed the importance of cooperation and integration in order to enhance performance and promote the Academy to become – in fact – the first reference in jurisprudence for the Muslim world and Muslim societies.
His Excellency also spoke about the importance of accelerating the formulation of an integrated conception of an urgent and focused scientific symposium on “the sanctity of blood” in Islam, in response to the mistakes that terrorist organizations and groups commit in the name of religion and exploit it to justify their ends. This symposium will be a platform to affirm the sanctity of the blood of different people, whether in religion or doctrine.
The meeting resulted in several decisions, the most important of which are the following:
-Calling on the Department of Research and Studies to present an integrated plan for a specialized symposium on the sanctity of blood, to organize in cooperation with centers, councils, and major academic institutions inside and outside the Muslim world.
-To organize of the first scientific forum between the Academy and the heads and secretaries of Shariah boards at the Islamic banks and financial institutions in the Gulf countries in December.
-Organizing a coordination and consultation meeting between the Academy and coordinating bodies such as the General Council of Banks, AAOIFI, Banking Services Council and the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IDB).
-To organize a consultative meeting with the King Salman Center for Moderation to identify possible methods and means of cooperation between the center and the Academy in the field of combating extremist ideologies.
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