Ahmad al-Iskandarānī, the spokesman for the Building and Development Party of the al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah (Islamic Group), said the Jamā’ah backpedaled on insistence on the text in the new constitution that the rulings of the Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation, adding the wording that the “principles of the sharī’ah” is enough.

“We are totally agreed on the civil nature of the state and against the religious state in its theocratic concept,” said Iskandarānī. [Munīr Adīb, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 1, p. 7] Read original text in Arabic