In cooperation with the Dubai 10X initiative and Dubai Future Foundation, Emirates Today publishes the most prominent projects participating in the initiative, which was directed by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to all government agencies in Dubai To apply today what the cities of the world will apply after 10 years, Dubai 10X seeks, in cooperation with the relevant authorities in the Dubai government, to adopt new models for future governments, by bringing about a comprehensive change in the governmental work system, and setting future plans that restore the government’s role in serving societies and making the future.

The Department of Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities in Dubai has launched a "virtual advisory" project within the first phase of the "Dubai 10X" initiative launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and supervised by Dubai Future Foundation, with the aim of consolidating Dubai's position as a beacon of knowledge, including forensic science, is considered the first project of its kind and no party has used it before.

The project aims to provide virtual services for the fatwa that can be obtained at any time and place by compiling a library of fatwas on various life affairs, using artificial intelligence techniques and analyzing big data to enable the Muslim to obtain sound legal opinions with the possibility of adding more languages ​​than Arabic and English in the future.

Many entities in Dubai are working on taking care of Islamic affairs, headed by the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai, whose vision is to make Dubai the pioneer and sustainable Islamic charitable destination, and its mission depends on spreading and promoting the values ​​of Islamic moderation and developing charitable work and mosque architecture in accordance with best practices Globalism.

The department stated that the project has an impact on the indicators of global competitiveness indirectly by affecting the indicators for automation of government services and the development of the use of information technology in the government.

She added that the project contributes to the establishment of Dubai as a beacon of knowledge, including forensic science, and facilitate obtaining a fatwa through the use of smart technologies, as well as reducing duplication, so jurists are not obliged to repeat the answers to questions previously posed, which contributes to devoting scholars and jurists to more issues And enable millions of Muslims around the world to obtain jurisprudential and legal answers at any time.

She pointed out that the use of advanced technology for artificial intelligence in religious affairs is a precedent of its kind that is unique to the Emirates and the Emirate of Dubai, as many of the advisory houses and private Islamic institutes around the world provide advisory services by phone or via e-mail, where the person sends the question and waits for a response within 24 hours or Several days, but the "virtual advisory opinion" added a new dimension to this service, which is the use of artificial intelligence instead of the human element, and this was not used by any of the religious authorities previously.

"Virtual advisory opinion" is defined as a project of Islamic legal fatwa, enhanced by using artificial intelligence techniques, through which massive evidence is analyzed to enable Muslims around the clock, seven days a week, to obtain fatwas on various affairs of their lives.

The distinguished project allows the collection of a huge library of fatwas on the various life affairs of the Muslim, practical and personal, to enable Muslims to obtain sound legal opinions, and publish fatwas in Arabic and English in the first stage and then add other languages ​​in the future.

The project is characterized by facilitating obtaining a fatwa through smart technologies as well as traditional means, reducing duplication in religious matters, and enabling hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world to obtain jurisprudential and legal answers in an instant.

The department clarified that the virtual advisory is a smart system for issuing a fatwa around the clock, reformulating the mechanism of delivering legal fatwas, through artificial intelligence technology, as it contributes to providing innovative channels, facilitating the answering of inquiries, and providing legal fatwas approved in the department in an innovative, interactive manner, which enables the access of beneficiaries To fatwas all over the world.

She added that the project comes to achieve the goals and axes of the Dubai strategy of artificial intelligence, which aims to transform Dubai into an organized, easy, effective, and happy experience for citizens and visitors, stressing that the goal of launching the program is to deliver the message of middle Islam and jurisprudence to all people wherever they are, in order to facilitate them, and interact with modern technologies and the generation Fourth, and to show the tolerance and spaciousness of Islam, noting that the reception of questions through the program will be throughout the day.

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Establishing Dubai as a beacon of knowledge, including forensic science.

Reducing duplication of fatwas.

Obtaining a fatwa through smart technologies.

The project allows scholars and jurists to devote more fields and issues.

Hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world get immediate fatwas.

The project achieves the goals and themes of the Dubai Artificial Intelligence strategy.

Provide a virtual fatwa that can be obtained anytime, anywhere.

The project can obtain sound legal opinions in "Arabic" and "English".