The Egyptian Dar Al Iftaa infuriated the pioneers of social media, when it described the Islamic conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) as the Ottoman occupation.

"The Ottomans occupied Istanbul in 1453, and they converted the Hagia Sophia Church to a mosque, after 916 years of its adoption by a church, and in 1934, it turned into a museum according to a decree issued in the shadow of the Turkish Republic Modern. "

The statement attacked the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's desire to return the Hagia Sophia to a mosque, confirming that he (that is, Erdogan) is currently using the mosques card to win support from "militants" in the elections.

The statements of the Egyptian Dar al-Iftaa sparked disgruntled reactions on social media, and Mordadoun criticized its transformation into a tool in the hands of the authorities for distorting the facts and attacking the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic conquest due to the current political dispute between Cairo and Ankara.

Hours later, the Issuing House was forced to write a new publication, in which it retracted the description of the conquest of Constantinople as an occupation, but it remained unchanged in interfering with politics to accompany the Egyptian authority in criticizing Turkey and its president.

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For his part, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Sagheer, undersecretary of the Religious Committee in Parliament and adviser to the former Minister of Religious Endowments, responded to the Dar al-Iftaa statement, saying, “The great fallacy in this statement is its description of the conquest of Constantinople as occupation, and this is an ugly and crude fallacy of the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, who preached the conquest of Constantinople in more than From a hadith, including his saying, peace be upon him: The first army to invade the city of Hercules (meaning Constantinople) is forgiven.

The Messenger of God preached the conquest of Constantinople repeatedly and described it in the most beautiful description "to conquer Constantinople, so that the prince bestowed on her prince and the army that the army has bestowed." Narrated by Ahmed
and changed by Sultan Muhammad bin Murad her name to # Islambol and then known as Muhammad al-Fateh
then came the Dar al-Iftaa in Egypt to describe all of this by the Ottoman occupation, bringing Satan

- Dr. Mohamed Al-Sagheer (@drassagheer) June 7, 2020

The Sheikh indicated in a tweet on his Twitter account to what was stated in the Imam Ahmad’s datum from Abdullah bin Amr bin Al-Aas that he said: While we are about the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him- we write, as some of them asked him: Which cities open first Constantinople or Rome (Rome Italian in the language of the age), and the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said the city of Hercules opens first.

The Egyptian Dar al-Iftaa turned into a section of the police stations, left issues of jurisprudence and devoted itself to political issues, and the evidence is that it is concerned only with Turkey without the rest of the Muslim countries and its observatory does not see only President # Erdogan without other leaders, and what comes from it in this regard is not related to Jurisprudence or fatwa is an onion, and not equal to an onion. pic.twitter.com/7D0gscIJRt

- Dr. Mohamed Al-Sagheer (@drassagheer) June 7, 2020

And d continued. Al-Saghir: “The Fatwa Observatory in Egypt is interested in the Turkish side, even as far as the fatwa and knowledge are not concerned, so it talked previously about a Turkish series and Turkish artistic events, but the new statement is similar to security reports.”

On the other hand, Moghradoun wondered if Dar al-Iftaa considered the conquest of Constantinople as an occupation, so would you come out soon to announce that the conquest of Mecca, Egypt, the Levant and Iraq was an Arab occupation?

Others commented in a sarcastic tone, saying, "There is nothing but an apology to the infidels of Quraish for the demolition of monuments (idols) around the Kaaba, on the day of the occupation (conquest) of Mecca."

There remains only an apology to the infidels of Quraish for the demolition of the monuments around the Kaaba ... the day of the "occupation" of Mecca‼ ️🤔 # Muhammad_ Al-Fateh
transferred

- Ahmad Abo Momen (@ AhmadabdAllha1) June 8, 2020

The House of Ifta al-Sisiyya:

Constantinople conquered occupation !!!

And conquered Egypt?

And open the Holy House?

And open cities?

And conquest of the Levant?

Sindh conquest?

And Andalusia opened?

Waiting for the answer of His Eminence, the Chief Rabbi and the Pontiff

- Dr. Huthaifa Abdullah Azzam (@Drhuthaifaabdu) June 7, 2020

- The Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace: To “conquer” Constantinople, let the prince be her prince and the army be gracious that army

- Dar al-Sisi: “The Ottomans occupied Istanbul in 1453!”
The Apostle calls it in Bushra, which is preserved by all Muslims,
Fateh, Sisi, and Ifta House, which it calls occupation

Abdulaziz Mujahed (@ elmogahed02) June 7, 2020

The words of the Egyptian Dar Al-Iftaa about the conquest of Constantinople are occupation, suggesting that all the Islamic conquests were also occupation, until the conquest of Egypt and the Levant, and this brings us back to the most important question and goal of the revolutionaries from the military and those who allied with them on June 30: Is it really their real problem with the Brotherhood or with Islam itself?

- The Egyptian Revolutionary Council (@ERC_egy) June 8, 2020

Ok, let’s have a little for the antichrist .. The man is not aware of what he can do. There is no need for him to do it, he will come back again .. It is not okay for the Sheikh to go! # Open _ Constantinople # Dar Al-Ifta__ Al-Masria pic.twitter.com/unuiMpeenb

- Rashid Al Mohannadi (@ralmuhanadi) June 7, 2020

# Dar Al-Ifta_ _ Al-Masria says that # Fatah_ Constantinople invaded and occupied Ottoman
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- مدAhmad Al-Qubari 🇶🇦 (@Ahmad_alqawbari) June 8, 2020

# The conquest of Constantinople, which the Mustafa, may God bless him and grant him peace, preached as occupation? !!! # Egyptian _ Fatwa _ I mean sissy

- Mhand Amari (@AmariMhand) June 8, 2020

# Conquest of
Constantinople If the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror was an occupation, then yes, the occupation is

- Hisham Al-Khattab (@ hesham19572013) June 8, 2020

If the conquest of Constantinople was an Ottoman occupation, what about the conquest of Makkah, the conquest of Egypt, and the conquest of Jerusalem ?!
The truth is that the Fatwa of the Egyptian Dar Al-Iftaa, considering the conquest of Constantinople as an occupation, is not different from the Houthi fatwa on Zakat and the five, both of which are cheap recruitment of the fatwa for political purposes.

Mohammed Alahmadi (@alahmadiyem) June 8, 2020

# Egyptian _ Fatwa _ The Messenger of God believed and lied to you.
Our Master, the Prophet, said that Constantinople will be opened.
If Constantinople conquered, if occupation, then Amr ibn al-As would conquer Egypt.

You remained a dirty tool that the government uses to absent more and more people ,,, fear God in your religion.
God is enough, and yes, the agent.

- Khaled Khaboor (@ Khaboor74) June 8, 2020

Egyptian Ifta House !! Greek mother? With this crooked logic, will Egypt be conquered by Arab occupation? The invaders have to get out of it # Dar Al-Iftwa, the Egyptian

“Yea Shil Aflak, O Erdogan,” the Mufti scholar
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such false articles do not serve Islam and deepen the hatred of the official fatwa centers. pic.twitter.com/v3lbLyBGkA

- Zelayat (@Zaylaiyaat) June 8, 2020