The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar has issued a decision to transfer all the administrative employees of the Fatwa committee in Al-Azhar to other works. He also ordered the reformation of the Fatwa committee according to the article 1150 issued in 1997. He also decided to hire Sheikh Tosoun Ibrahim Hawashi as the general secretary of the new committee. These decisions were based on the note that Sheikh Al-Azhar had received from the general department of administrative and financial inspection.