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Financial institutions must not regard Shari’a compliance as the finishing touch to product development. Instead, product development needs to start from Shari’a principles: i.e. Islamic financial institutions must become Shari’a driven. And that is why this conference and the next set of consultations by AAOIFI are going to be so important.