Fatwas on Consumerism in Brunei Darussalam: An Analysis

The development of consumerism issues currently occurring together with the rapid technology that encourage manufacturers to produce a wide range of consumer products to meet the needs of current demand. Furthermore, entrepreneurs are trying to attract consumers to use these products to gain revenue. Thus, the Islamic legal pronouncement (fatwa) is a current mechanism for the Muslim community to seek clarification on arise matters so that their life does not contradict with the Islamic law. Therefore, this study is to explore the theoretical concept of consumerism fatwa along with its examples that have been issued in Brunei Darussalam. Documentation method as well as interview and content analysis method are performed to assist this study as means to gather and analyses data. The finding of this study specifies that consumerism fatwa covers entire aspects pertaining the activity associated with food products, non-food products and non-good products.