fatwa

English translation: formal legal opinion

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Arabic term or phrase:	fatwa
English translation:	formal legal opinion
Entered by:	Fuad Yahya

17:54 Oct 22, 2001

Arabic to English translations [Non-PRO]

Arabic term or phrase: fatwa

we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies-civilian and military-is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim."

tawnny

Fatwa, a formal legal opinion

Explanation:
Term from Islamic law

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Timothy Gregory
Local time: 15:42

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Fatwa, a formal legal opinion

Timothy Gregory

fatwa is fatwa!!!!!!!!!

Albert Golub

Legal decision, opinion or verdict

Safaa Roumani

opinion, finding, in Islamic law.

Colin Brayton

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13 mins confidence:

fatwa is fatwa!!!!!!!!!

Explanation:
good luck!!!

Albert Golub
Local time: 00:42
Native speaker of: French

26 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

Fatwa, a formal legal opinion

Explanation:
Term from Islamic law

Timothy Gregory
Local time: 15:42
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 1

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Legal decision, opinion or verdict

Explanation:
It implies previous consideration of a judicial or learned question, or a matter causing doubt, debate or controvesy.
It's supposed to be given by someone knowledgable in the field of the matter in question.

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Safaa Roumani
United States
Local time: 18:42
Native speaker of: Arabic

14 hrs confidence:

opinion, finding, in Islamic law.

Explanation:
From a root f-t-y that means "youth, adolescent", possibly because the causative form IV means "to make young." It is a finding about the proper action to take in circumstances not explicitly dealt with by the Qu'ran Sunna and Hadith (the records of the Prophet's sayings and the huge corpus of prior scholarly interpretations of them). Thus, it is a making of new law, a way of legislating on unforeseen cases in a manner consistent with tradition.

Reference: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/practices.html

Colin Brayton
Local time: 18:42
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English
PRO pts in pair: 16

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