(MENAFN- Pajhwok Afghan News) KABUL (Pajhwok): Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar University in Egypt Dr. Shawki Ibrahim has said that only courts could declare a person infidel while the state was the only authority to declare jihad, a media report said on Wednesday.
Referring to militant leaders with religious linkages, he said, €œSimilarly we need to counter the mindset which does not believe in boundaries of the states.€
According to Dawn.com, the grand Mufti of Al-Azhar said that only grand muftis were authorised to issue decrees and not semi-literate clerics who issued decrees after reading a few books being €œholed up in caves€.
He said extremism led to terrorism, blasphemy and declaring any Muslim a non-believer were prohibited in Islam.
€œGroups like Daesh (the militant Islamic State) have strayed away from the message of Islam but they are targeting Muslim youths through social media,€ Dr Ibrahim said during a religious huddle in Pakistan.
He said that Egypt, too, was formulating a national narrative on similar lines and the document would be signed by mainstream clerics.
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