{"id":3728,"date":"2015-04-15T23:22:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T03:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2015-04-15T23:22:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T03:22:30","slug":"women-voting-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"Women Voting &amp; Becoming Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Question:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In these days of fitnah, is it allowed for a Muslim woman to vote and run as a candidate for a council, assembly or municipality?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Answer:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not prohibited for a woman to vote. Yes, when she goes to vote, it is necessary on her to observe the Shar&#8217;ee hijaab. It is not good for a woman to become a candidate as it is <strong>impossible<\/strong> for her to join any council or assembly while\u00a0fulfilling the obligations of Shariah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Grand Mufti) Kifaayatullah (May Allah have mercy on him)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kifaayatul Mufti<\/span> 9\/349<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In these days of fitnah, is it allowed for a Muslim woman to vote and run as a candidate for a council, assembly or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","wpcat-52-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}