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Fourth:It is also one of the symbols of imitating the West andapproving its styles.Fifth:The Glorious Qur’an, books of Tafseer and dictionary as wellas other books use Arabic numbers in their pages and references,and which form a great heritage. If the European numbers wereto be used instead of these Arabic numbers, it would make futuregenerations unable to benefit from this heritage easily.Sixth:It is not necessary to follow some Arab countries, which havestarted the use of European numbers because many of thesecountries have neglected what is even greater and more importantthan this, and that is the application of Islamic Shari’ah, which isa source of honour, triumph and happiness in this world and inthe hereafter. Therefore, the practice of these countries cannot beaccepted as a justification.In the light of what have been mentioned above, the IslamicFiqh Council decided the following:First; to confirm the contents of resolution issued by theSenior Scholars' Council in Saudi Arabia in this regard, statingthe prohibition of replacing the Arabic numbers with theEuropean numbers for reasons mentioned in the afore-saidresolution.Second; non-acceptability of the view that calls for generaluse of the European numbers on the basis of what has been saidin this regard, because the Ummah should not abandon what ithas adopted for many centuries due to certain obvious reasonsand then leave it due to certain other reasons.181