Representatives of political parties and Islamist groups announced their approval over the Azhar document as an only reference to seek during the process of drafting the constitution.

'Abd al-Mun'im al-Shahāt, the spokesman for the Salafist Call Organization in Alexandria, said the Azhar is the banner under which all preachers are working, adding the Azhar's initiative would be an Islamic reference.

Dr. Muhammad Mursī, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), and Dr. 'Isām al-'Iryān, the deputy leader of the party, expressed approval on all the principles contained in the document.

They said that the document won the agreement of all political groups and ended the political and intellectual controversy over the supra-constitutional principles.