I just came across a blog post from a couple of years ago asking why Muslims were not issuing fatawa condemning terrorists attacks on innocent people and other such injustices.
More than anything else, I think this shows how ignorant non-Muslims (and even some Muslims) are regarding fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). The purpose of a fatwa is provide new insight into some aspect of the shari’ah or to indicate how the shari’ah should be applied in a certain place and time. Anything beyond this scope is not relevant to fatawa.
I think that many people have confused the “fatwa” with socio-political commentary on behalf of jurists, which most Muslim scholars, especially shi’a scholars, do not do. There is no need to issue a fatwa against killing/murdering of innocent people because every Muslim knows that it is wrong. Those who do it are not in need of a fatwa to make them stop. They do it because of their own desires. “That is because they hate what Allah has revealed, therefore He makes their deeds fruitless. “(Qur’an 47:9)
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