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Some contemporary scholars have criticised and condemned FGM. However, because nothing that Muhammad allowed can be prohibited, it is not licit to forbid FGM. Therefore fatwas critical of FGM generally stop well short of forbidding it. The following are extracts from fatwas critical of FGM, classified in such a way as to illustrate the range of arguments made for FGM being un-Islamic.  <!-- insert link to debunking section when 'FGM in Islam' page  is completed --><u>FGM is not required by Islam</u>{{Quote-text|1=[http://archive.today/2021.04.09-061324/https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=77396%23 Dr Ahmed Talib, Dean of the Faculty of Sharia at Al-Azhar University]|2=“All practices of female circumcision and mutilation are crimes and have no relationship with Islam. Whether it involves the removal of the skin or the cutting of the flesh of the female genital organs… it is not an obligation in Islam.”}}{{Quote-text|[http://archive.today/2015.01.20-032048/http://www.stopfgmmideast.org/the-point-of-view-of-the-supreme-leader-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-on-female-genital-mutilation/ Fatwa of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, (2011)]|“In response to a question of the author of the book Razor and Tradition, which discusses Female Genital Mutilation,'' [Khamenei] ''noted that female circumcision is permissible but not obligatory”}}<u>FGM existed before Islam</u>{{Quote-text|[http://archive.today/2015.01.20-032048/http://www.stopfgmmideast.org/the-point-of-view-of-the-supreme-leader-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-on-female-genital-mutilation/ Is Female Circumcision Required]|“While the exact origin of female circumcision is not known, it preceded Christianity and Islam.”}}<u>There is no FGM in the Qur'an</u>{{Quote-text|[http://archive.today/2021.04.09-062048/https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/09/18/fatwa-fgm-could-be-part-solution%23 A Fatwa on FGM Could be Part of the Solution – Kurdistan (2010)]|“The practice is not mentioned in the Quran”}}<u>The Qur'an forbids mutilation</u>{{Quote-text|1=[http://archive.today/2021.04.09-070320/https://w3i.target-nehberg.de/HP-08_fatwa/index.php?p=fatwaAzhar Professor Ali Gom’a, Grand Mufti of Egypt, (2006)]|2=“God gave people dignity. In the Qur’an God says: “We have dignified the sons of Adam”. Therefore, God forbids any harm coming to man, irrespective of social status and gender.”}}{{Quote-text|[http://archive.today/2012.09.06-214426/http://www.medindia.net/news/Egyptian-Clerics-Say-Female-Circumcision-UnIslamic-23055-1.htm Egyptian Clerics Say Female Circumcision Un-Islamic, (2007)]|“The traditional form of excision is a practice totally banned by Islam because of the compelling evidence of the extensive damage it causes to women’s bodies and minds”}}{{Quote-text|[http://archive.today/2021.04.09-045325/https://courtingthelaw.com/2016/04/28/commentary/islam-and-female-genital-mutilation-fgm/ Islam And Female Genital Mutilation, Pakistan, (2016)]|“Allah Almighty prohibits in the Holy Quran to cut a body part of human beings without any reason because a human being is the most beloved creature to the omnipotent Allah, and is the creature in whose beautiful creation the Almighty takes pride in.”}}{{Quote-text|[https://oc-media.org/muftiate-of-daghestan-promises-religious-ban-on-female-genital-mutilation/ Muftiate of Daghestan promises religious ban on female genital mutilation], (2020)]|"The Muftiate of Daghestan, the traditional Islamic religious authority of the region, has condemned the practice of female genital mutilation as contrary to the laws of Islam. Zaynulla Atayev, the head of the Muftiate’s fatwa department, told independent outlet ''ROMB'' that Islam categorically prohibits any excision of vital organs without a competent medical opinion."}}<u>There is no record of Muhammad having his wives or daughters 'circumcised'</u>{{Quote-text|[http://archive.today/2021.04.09-045325/https://courtingthelaw.com/2016/04/28/commentary/islam-and-female-genital-mutilation-fgm/ Islam And Female Genital Mutilation, Pakistan, (2016)]|“[Mohammed] had four daughters and we have no strong sources to prove if even one of them was circumcised” }}<u>The FGM hadith are weak</u>{{Quote-text|[http://archive.today/2021.04.09-070627/http://www.muftisays.com/qa/women/1884-does--female-circumcision-have-its-place-in-islaam/ does female circumcision have its place in Islaam, (2006)]|“In a Hadith it is mentioned:”Circumcision is Sunnah for men and an honorable thing for women.” Due to the weakness of this hadith and other hadiths that refer to female circumcision with some of their narrators being known for deceptiveness and others whose narrations carry no weight scholars of Islamic Law have differed widely regarding its legal ruling.”}}<u>Islam should adapt to contemporary mores</u>{{Quote-text|[http://archive.today/2015.01.20-032048/http://www.stopfgmmideast.org/the-point-of-view-of-the-supreme-leader-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-on-female-genital-mutilation/ The point of view of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Female Genital Mutilation, 2014]|“Today, female genital mutilation is not common among Shiites but the usage narrative show that it does not hurt if it can be done with its conditions, including compliance with health issues. But because the social norms have changed today, this action would not be acceptable like many other topics which their sentences were changed due to circumstances and facts.”}}<u>Muhammad wanted to forbid FGM but couldn't</u>{{Quote-text|[http://archive.today/2021.04.09-071514/http://www.stopfgmmideast.org/fatwas-against-fgm/ Sayyad Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Grand Sheikh of Lebanon]|“Islam did not forbid [FGM] at that time because it was not possible to suddenly forbid a ritual with strong roots in Arabic culture; rather it preferred to gradually express its negative opinions. This is how Islam treated slavery as well, (gradual preparation of the society for the final forbiddance of slavery).}}