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Questforthepath,

Unfrotunately on the net I have not seen many people who approach this issue in an unbiased manner. Many, rather almost all are preoccupied with love for Mufti Taqi Saheb db. so naturally as soon as they hear a certain Mufti Zarwali or certain Maulana Saleemullah Khan db. speaking negatively about Mufti Taqi Saheb db. these people become defensive and loose sight of bias.

I have seen such unbias to even stronger degree among the students of Mufti Saheb and even Ulama who otherwise do not know much of these finanicial issues (in detail). A majority of these Ulama and his students simply take Mufti Saheb as an unquestionable authority in finance, so much so that anyone and everyone who may say otherwise has to be unqualified for an opinion.

Without geting into the issues of who is speaking the truth and who is not, I think for us laymen we simply need to sit back, have sabr and await for these Ulama to reconcile on the issue. The "Islamic Murawaja Banking" was not a compilation of a few unqualified Mufties, rather many muftis within the field of finance. Similarly, Mufti Taqi Saheb db finally coming out to explain the fiqhi issues and answering them is indeed a posative sign. Perhaps it opens a good way of finally approaching him with regards to these issues.

I pray that Mufti Taqi Saheb db. not only cater for the local opposition with academic responses, rather also address the issues some foreign Iftaa Dept. have been requesting him to consider. I know this because of the requests sent out from our own darul iftaa, which have long been forgotten. I sincerely hope these issues get a proper addressing.