E-Fatwa Information Management:

The importance of fatwa in our everyday lives cannot be denied. This is because Islam commands Muslims to ask those who are more learned and pious if they do not know. In the current practice, only the Mufti who is elected in a country can carry out the process of issuing a fatwa when deciding a certain ruling. And the Muslim community living in the country should obey the fatwa given after an agreed process from the ulama’ and the experts in certain fields. This needs to consider the establishment of firmed, friendly and efficient institution to deliver fatwa for public. In parallel of current needs, any resources institution should be more friendly and efficient through online. In this case, e-Fatwa application has been launched in Malaysia by the Prime Minister since 2003. It is very much contributing Muslim community and must be well sustained, enhanced and updated from time to time. This paper shares UiTM experience of doing evaluative research and consultancy in providing special training and consultancy for all mufti’s departments towards developing, sustaining and enhancing fatwa database management. I really hope the publication of e-Fatwa can help our society to understand more about the fatwa and fatwa produce by our Muslims Scholars and be close with them. From this effort, I hope our society can discuss openly the solution of current issue nowadays that suits to the doctrine of Islam which is very comprehensive and up-to-date. (Minister, Department of Prime Minister) I hope this e-Fatwa can be a reference to the society to seek for certain fatwa according to certain problems. Thus, with the existence of e-Fatwa can develop more on knowledge activities. (Head of Director, JAKIM) It looks easier, but only Allah the Almighty knows. It is not a simple work to success in producing software in the web server, but also the high commitment of all officers from JAKIM and Jabatan Mufti from all over Malaysia that make the project of e-Fatwa a successful one. (ICT JAKIM Service unit)