Following the shooting to celebrate the reelection of the speaker, Nabih Berri, the Religious Authority Ayatullah Al Ozma Sayyed M. H. Fadlullah issued a Fatwa that prohibited firing shots and fireworks among the people in the streets, whatever the occasion may be.

His Eminence condemned the shootings that followed the reelection of the Lebanese Speaker, Nabih Berri, considering them as an ignorant or backward way of expressing feelings.

His Eminence emphasized that such an action is prohibited due to the negative consequences of scaring the people, disturbing them and even causing causalities, who fell as a result of these practices that reflect a flaw in their religious political or national commitment. It also reflects a backward mentality in dealing with those occasions, whether those of joy or mourning.

It also lead to a great loss of lives and of money and to a misuse of arms in the wrong place and in a way that hurts social security and general order.

Sayyed Fadlullah further called on all officials concerned to prevent such an attitude from being repeated in any other occasion to safeguard our country and public life.