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The Fourth Resolutionon Research Paper Entitled:‘Spread of Ommul Khabaeth: Malady and Remedy’Presented by Mahmood Sheith KhattabAll Praise be to Almighty Allah.Blessing and peace be on His Prophet Muhammadafter whom there is no prophet, and on all thosewho followed his way of guidance.The Islamic Fiqh Council during its 4 th session held at thegeneral secretariat of the Muslim World League in MakkahMukarramah between 7-17 Rabi Al-Aakhir 1401H examined theresearch paper ‘Spread of Ommul Khabaeth in Arab Countries:Malady and Remedy’ presented to it by the Council member,Mahmood Sheith Khattab. The Council found it a comprehensiveresearch paper which covered the main three evils: Alcoholicdrinks, drugs and Tobacco.The frightening picture presented by this valued researchwork which contains the important documented information andvarious hygienic, social and economic statistics, cautioning aboutthe worst scenario of the future youth generation, is in fact, apicture that is sufficient to warn the leaders of the MuslimUmmah at the various levels to shoulder their responsibilities inthis regard in order to ward off the worst fate that awaits thefuture generation due to spread of these three evils, which theauthor of the research paper has called ‘Mother of Evils’ in thecircles of the Muslim boys and girls.Author of the research paper has found that the ways andmeans of these evils’ spread are three as the following: i) thehomes where some of these boys and girls see parents andguardians to be addicted to such evils, ii) the educationalinstitutions where students and undergraduates influence their91