The media office of the Lebanese Grand Muftī al-Shaykh Muhammad Rashīd al-Qabbānī issued a fatwá against civil marriage, saying its stipulations contradict with the stipulations of Islam and the Qur'ān. The media office added that the Muftī's son al-Shaykh Rāghib al-Qabbānī got married in a mosque in Brazil and did not have a civil marriage, as was alleged by some (Autor not mentioned, al-Wafd, Feb. 13, p. 16). Read original text in Arabic.