if the national assembly approves the law to regulate the legal profession as proposed, thousands of graduates of the faculty of sharia, who aspire to work as lawyers and become prosecutors might be subjected to unemployment. the proposed law provides for the exclusion of graduates of this faculty which should not have been originally called faculty.
while the president of the association of students of the faculty of sharia ahmed al-azmi told al-qabas that he obtained the support of a large number of deputies who have signed a document to reject the inclusion of the proposal on the national assembly agenda to keep the current absurd situation as it is.
in this regard, some law professors and deans of sharia have expressed their concern about the saturation of the labor market with sharia graduates and how the problem of these will not be solved by the new law once it is approved.
the problem will become complicated in the years to come, as students continue to study law at home and abroad, stressing that many of the “sharia” graduates are working in the judiciary, therefore it came as no surprise that the deans denounced the decision to prevent the faculty’s graduates from working in the legal profession, pointing out that the lack of qualification for legal jobs can be solved by courses and training (this is considered recognition that these graduates are not efficient enough).
the sudden approval of this law will inevitably lead to waste years of study for a large number of students who considered the faculty a gateway to the legal profession and of course this is funny and worthless.
despite the fact those graduates of jurisprudence and its origins are closer to legal legislation, their religious studies are far from the profession of law, and the great mistake in accepting graduates of sharia as lawyers does not mean continuation of this error forever.
as some religious extremists claim that law is originally based on sharia and it is assumed that all the laws of islamic countries are in accordance with the provisions of the islamic sharia. therefore, the graduates of sharia are better able than others to understand the laws and their applications; we tell them “this is funny and ungrounded”.
sharia-related laws have nothing in the penal code which is the backbone of the judicial system.
the deputies put pressure on the weak government nearly 40 years ago to accept the separation of the sharia from the faculty of law, and they got what they wanted, and that was a disaster. then, the deputies themselves, or their sons and their successors put pressure on the weak government again nearly 20 years ago and forced it to accept the employment of sharia graduates in the legal profession and as public prosecutors.
it was a bigger catastrophe and a legal, social and moral disaster and all of us will pay the price for encouraging thousands who are unable to study law or who do not want to make great efforts in studying law will join the faculty of sharia to become lawyers and prosecutors the easy way.
i, and late dr ahmed al-baghdadi wrote several articles criticizing the decision to allow graduates of the faculty of sharia to work at the bar association and the prosecution because of the risk on the application of justice, and on the level of the profession in general, which will cause harm to many of the litigants.
this will also create high competition between these people especially with the expected large increase in the number of these, and the addition of the annual universities graduates with less reasonable academic level, and therefore we hope to amend the law on the practice of law to conform to the logic of all countries that respect themselves.