The conservatives and the religious authorities in Qum in Iran are putting all their hopes on the Council for Maintaining the Constitution, whose membership includes eminent Shi’ite references. These Shi’ite references would stand up against reformers’ attack on the Shi’a fiqh or the constants of the Islamic revolution. On the other hand, this fatwa triggered happiness among Sunni scholars who saw it as a step towards eliminating suspicion and ending many centuries of Shi’ite belief that it was Caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab [the second orthodox caliph of Islam and one of the first four orthodox caliphs- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar] who called for making men and women equal in inheritance in the absence of any other beneficiary related to the deceased husband. This fatwa also encouraged supporters of equality between men and women to ask for more fatwas and decisions, an action that many scholars see as a direct violation of religion and an abandonment of its legal constants.