Abstaining from Attending or Voting Between Law and Contemporary Islamic Jurisprudence

Al Liwaa: Recently, the issue has arisen of abstaining from attending sessions of the Supreme Islamic Sharia Council, and the comparison made between it and the issue of registering attendance while abstaining from voting. It is a legal and jurisprudential quandary concerning the member’s personal position, but it goes beyond that to concern the nature of the responsibility placed upon…