Sheikh Abdullah Al-Sheikh is what passes for an intellectual in Saudi Arabia, and he holds the position of 'Grand Mufti'. I tell you all this, not because you care very much, but more as background and context.
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This year he passed a Fatwa I.e.. He made a 'religious judgement'
on something being permissible or not in Islam. Nothing new there, he
will have passed hundreds, if not thousands of these judgements over the
decades .... anything from death sentences, to restrictions in the
marital home, or advice on prayers.
