Where every answer comes from
Every answer on El Fatwa comes from Ftawy. There is one source, not a mix of them, and each page names it before you read a word.
Ftawy is the source
El Fatwa and Ftawy are run by the same owner. Ftawy publishes the answers; El Fatwa organizes them and links each one to its full text on Ftawy. Both draw on the work of the sharia, fatwa, research and scholarly committees of Waqf Iqraa, a research center.
195,634 answers are published here, all of them sourced from ftawy.com. If an answer is not on Ftawy, it is not on El Fatwa.
That single-source rule is what makes the site checkable. You never have to wonder which authority a page is quoting, or whether we blended two answers into one.
Citations appear as the source gave them
A citation on El Fatwa is a copy, not a rewrite.
- The Qur'an is cited by chapter and verse, in the form the source used — for example, Qur'an 2:185.
- A hadith is cited by collection and number, as the source wrote it.
- If the source cites nothing, the page cites nothing.
We do not go looking for a better reference. Strengthening a source's evidence would change what the source said, which is the one thing we will not do.
Gradings are reported as given
A grading is the source's judgement about how sound a report is — words like sahih (sound) or hasan (good).
We report the grading the source gave. We never add one, upgrade one, or downgrade one.
If the source states no grading, the page states none. An empty space here is honest. A filled one would be ours, not the source's.
Where scholars differ
Some questions have more than one answer among scholars. Where the source says so, the page says so: which position is held, by whom, and which one the full answer follows.
We do not flatten a difference into a verdict, and we do not pick a side the source did not pick.
The link on every answer
Every published answer carries one control: Read the full answer on Ftawy.
It points to an address on our own site, /go/ftawy/…, which forwards you to that exact page on ftawy.com. Ftawy is the only destination this link is allowed to reach. Any other address is refused, so the link cannot be pointed somewhere else.
Why every answer carries it:
- The full text is on Ftawy. It has the detail, the wording and the conditions.
- You can check us. One tap puts this page and the original side by side.
- It is the only way off the site. Nothing else on El Fatwa links outward.
If the source address for an answer is missing, the button is not shown. A dead handoff is worse than none. We hide it and flag the page for review, rather than guess a replacement address.
Using the link tells us that a question sends readers to the source. It does not tell us who you are. We record the page the click came from, the time of the click, the page language, a coarse device type, a coarse referrer type and the country, plus a short hash of your shortened address made with a salt that is thrown away every day, so one day's visit cannot be linked to the next. We do not store the address itself. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, the hash is left out.
How a page is built from all of this is set out in Methodology.
This page explains our source. It carries no ruling · updated 25 October 2026