Umm Al-Qura University, represented by the College of Shari’a and Islamic Studies, is to hold an international conference on charitable work: purposes, rules, and applications, with the participation of Al-Hoda Center for Islamic Legal Studies on Charitable Work, event organizer. The conference is scheduled to be in Makkah on the first two days of the month of Safar of the Hijri year 1440 AH, God willing.

The conference seeks to achieve the following objectives:

1. Highlighting and rooting the Islamic legal purposes and the general issues of charitable work.
2. Promoting the regenerative course of contemporary charitable work jurisprudence in light of the Islamic legal purposes and rules as well as the applicable laws.
3. Enhancing the leadership of the KSA in charitable work and humanitarian action.

Themes of the Conference

Theme 1: Charitable Work and its Role in Community Reform

1. Charitable work and community reform (concepts and rooting).
2. Charitable work and its impact on family and social reform.
3. Charitable work and its impact on financial and economic reform.
4. Charitable work and its impact on psychological and educational reform.
5. Charitable work and its impact on cultural and ideological reform.

Theme 2: Islamic Legal Purposes of Charitable work

1. General purposes of charitable work.
2. Partial purposes of charitable work.
3. Impact of complying with the purposes on charitable work.
4. Charitable work’s contribution to the fulfillment of the Islamic legal purposes.
5. Public interest and its relation to charitable work.

Theme 3: Islamic Fundamental and Jurisprudence Rules Organizing Charitable Work

1. Islamic fundamental rules impacting the issues of charitable work.
2. Islamic jurisprudence rules related to the issues of charitable work.
3. Rules of precedence in charitable work programs.
4. Rules of necessity and need in charitable work.
5. Islamic jurisprudence of consequences and its impact on charitable work.

Theme 4: Applications of Charitable Work in Light of its Rules and Purposes

1. In financial aspects (accepting money from forbidden sources; granting and giving; donations; etc.).
2. In the area of advocacy and education.
3. In the area of media and marketing.
4. In pandemics and times of need.
5. Historical models of compliance with the purposes of Islamic Law in charitable work.

Theme 5: Role of KSA in Serving Charitable Work

1. Role of the KSA in compliance with the Islamic legal purposes in charitable work at the national level, plus examples.
2. Role of the KSA in compliance with the Islamic legal purposes in charitable work at the international level, plus examples.

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