Middle East
Grand Mufti of Egypt Allows Celebration of Imam Mahdi’s Birthday
The Grand Mufti of Egypt has issued a fatwa that allows to hold the celebrations of the birth of Imam Mahdi ( Hoja) (AS) in Egypt, regardless of its content.
Dustour, the Egyptian newspaper said that ” Mufti Egypt Sheikh Ali Gomaa issued a fatwa saying that we allow to celebrate the Imam Mahdi( Hoja)’s birth anniversary regardless of its content. Mufti Egypt Grand added that “there is a difference in the form of celebrations, ceremonies nature, where some of them are hold in the mosques, but it should not include things that God forbade it ” .
It is noteworthy that The Grand Mufti of Egypt , has issued earlier a fatwa that Allows to visit the graves and it is not polytheism and ifidelity.