{"id":957,"date":"2012-01-28T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/?p=957"},"modified":"2012-01-28T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T15:51:48","slug":"comment-on-egyptian-court-decision-on-bahais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/comment-on-egyptian-court-decision-on-bahais\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on Egyptian Court Decision on Baha&#8217;is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the Cairo-based Court of Administrative Justice&#8217;s decision clearing the way for Egyptian Baha&#8217;is to obtain proper identification papers, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, Vice-President of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) and professor at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Jeddah, told Al-Watan newspaper, &#8220;I cannot criticize the Egyptian court ruling, as the court has its own considerations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, it is widely known that Baha&#8217;is contravene a lot of the principles of Islamic Shari`ah, and I will not change my conviction in this respect,&#8221; Sheikh Bin Bayyah confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that he has never heard from them anything that can be in line with Islamic Shari`ah and that many of their beliefs and practices are plain violations of the methodology of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps the decision was taken just for regulatory reasons,&#8221; the Sheikh concluded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the Cairo-based Court of Administrative Justice&#8217;s decision clearing the way for Egyptian Baha&#8217;is to obtain proper identification papers, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, Vice-President of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) and professor at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Jeddah, told Al-Watan newspaper, &#8220;I cannot criticize the Egyptian court ruling, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}