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Imams warned about lengthy Friday sermons
Filed under NewsAug 27JEDDAH – The Ministry of Islamic Affairs has ordered Imams not to deliver lengthy Friday sermons, stressing that those who do not keep their sermons short and meaningful will be punished.
Dr. Azam Al-Shewair, Chief of the Committee for the Assessment of Imams and Khateebs at the ministrys branch in Riyadh, said the Imams who ignore the ministrys instructions will be forced to undergo training. If they repeat the offense, they will get a final warning and their salaries will be cut.
He said Imams should take into consideration that there are old and sick people, particularly those with diabetes, among the worshippers who cannot tolerate sitting and listening to sermons for long periods. He said Imams should follow the wisdom of keeping sermons short and meaningful.
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Preacher told not to issue unauthorized fatwas
Filed under NewsAug 26RIYADH/JEDDAH: The Kingdoms most senior religious scholar has ordered a preacher to stop giving unauthorized fatwas (religious edicts) after he called for boycotting a supermarket chain that employs women as cashiers.
Youssef Al-Ahmed had urged people not to shop at Panda
stores because women there work in jobs that allow for the mingling of the
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Shoura members call to reform aviation industry
Filed under NewsAug 24RIYADH – Engineer Osama Kurdi, a member of the Shoura Council, stressed that privatizing commercial aviation in the Kingdom requires government responsibility for monitoring the sector and addressing obstacles, new airlines face as they attempt to build their businesses.
Foreign investment in the airline sector and other industries will provide benefits from increased competition and the technological experience of companies and investors that choose to participate, he said.
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Aug 21
JEDDAH – Saudi nationals have called on Engineer Adel Fakeih, the newly appointed labor minister, to introduce the necessary regulations that will ensure the Saudization program creates jobs for many thousands of unemployed citizens.
Fakeih should also create opportunities for Saudi women to be employed in various industries.
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Aug 21
MADINA – Young militants are more likely to reject extremist views quicker than those who are steeped in theory, according to Dr. Ibrahim Al-Maiman, a member of the Advice Committee concerned with such detainees.
“The theoreticians do not give up their militant thoughts easily and return to the right path,” said Al-Maiman.
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Laborers may skip fast Scholar
Filed under NewsAug 18JEDDAH – Laborers working in the West do not have to fast during Ramadan if the work they do weakens their strength and affects their performance in jobs that are their only sources of income, Dr. Abdullah Bin Bayyah, vice president of the International Union for Muslim Scholars and a member of the Fiqh Academys Islamic Jurisprudence Academies told Okaz/Saudi Gazette.
“If fasting weakens a workers physical strength and affects his productivity, he may not fast, but that is on condition that he fasts later on the days he skippped fast,” Dr. Bin Bayyah said.
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Pawning spurs gold market
Filed under NewsAug 14JEDDAH: As high gold prices have crushed any hopes for a quick recovery in the sector, many jewelers in the city are now successfully pawning the valuable metal for cash.
They have been successful in attracting a large number of women customers happy to fulfill their gold cravings, at least for the time being.
Al-Madinah Arabic daily reported that some traders lure customers with a poster placed in front of their premises advertising that gold is available to be pawned.
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Aug 14
JEDDAH – Gulf markets closed the week lower amid pressure from the global market slump, a gloomy outlook for the world economic recovery and falling oil prices, financial analysts said Friday.
“Investors are still very cautious about entering the market,” said Mohamed Khaled, risk manager at Prime Emirates.
“Markets here are lower because of what is happening in the global markets, there is some aggressive selling because of concerns of the economy – crude oil also went down – which all affect us here,” Khaled said.
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Aug 10
DAMMAM – Recruitment costs for Indonesian domestic workers will drop Wednesday from SR8,000 to SR6,000, according to a memorandum of understanding between the National Committee for Recruitment and Indonesian authorities.
Recruitment offices have completed documents and requirements with Indonesian contracting offices, said Eid Al-Muttairi, a member of the Recruitment Committee in the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce.
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Aug 9
JEDDAH – There are a total of 18,851 buildings located in 52 unplanned areas in the city that are unsafe and not built according to proper engineering standards, according to a city official.
Khaled Zaini, Chairman of the Dilapidated Buildings Committee and Director General of Jeddahs Emergency Department, added that most houses in the citys unplanned areas are not safe and cannot withstand natural forces.
Zaini said that there are no plans to remove these buildings. However, a study on the condition of the buildings is being reviewed by the committee.
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