The party told some leading members in the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) that they will not cede their wish to implement the Islamic sharī’ah.
The Salafī Da’wah (Call) appealed to its deputy leader Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, a member of the constituent assembly drafting a new Egyptian constitution, to adopt this demand in the panel.
“I am not going to give up or bargain over Article II pertaining to the Islamic sharī’ah. We have come to implement the sharī’ah, not to obtain cabinet portfolios,” said Burhāmī in statements.
He threatened to withdraw all al-Nūr representatives from the assembly if the phrase “principles of Islamic sharī’ah” in the second article is kept unchanged, adding the drafting of this article in this way would make liberals and secularists challenge the implementation of the sharī’ah.
The salafī leader also rejected the use of the phrase “civil state” in the new constitution because it will “destroy the foundations of the idea of implementing the Islamic sharī’ah”. [‘Amr ‘Abd al-Rādī, al-Ahālī, July 4, p. 3] Read text in Arabic
