An Egyptian cleric issued a fatwa on Tuesday, pronouncing that Ramadan prank shows including MBC's Ramez Underground, are unlawful under Islamic law, The New Arab reported. 

"Islamic law does not permit people to do anything that would scare another person," Member of the al-Azhar University's Alumni Union, Sheikh Sayyed Salman, said.  

"These programs harm their guests, who could even lose their lives if they suffer from certain medical conditions," he added.  

The cleric also went on to say that the programs "provoke the victims of the pranks to take part in 'immoral activity' such as swearing and violence." 

While the fatwa pronounces that such shows are "forbidden," it does not constitute an official ban of the programs. 

Ramez Underground  has been receiving intense backlash in recent weeks, with people and lawmakers calling for it to be banned. 

Egyptian lawyer and Chairman of Egypt's Zamalek, Mortada Mansour even called on its presenter, Ramez Galal to either be sent in for psychiatric evaluation or to be arrested and tried for "attempted murder." 

This year, the divisive show's guests are tricked into believing that they are part of a chat show hosted by Lebanese presenter Neshan Der Haroutiounian. 

They arrive for the interview in an Abu Dhabi desert area and on their way back their vehicle quickly begins to sink into quicksand and things escalate from there.

The show's previous seasons also sparked controversy, but still emerged as rating hits. 

In recent years, the commercial success of Ramez Galal's prank shows spurred other Television producers to create their own versions of it. 

Last year, an Egyptian prank show made headlines for tricking its guests into believing that they had been kidnapped by the so called Islamic State (IS).

Another, titled Urgent Landing, chartered an entire plane to celebrities who were tricked into believing that the planes engines were failing. 

In the wake of the so-called Islamic State's (IS) near complete defeat in Mosul, Christian and Muslim families who had fled persecution are slowly returning to their homes. 

This includes the inhabitants of Mosul's Al Arabi neighborhood, where hundreds of buildings, including the town's Mar Georges monastery, were destroyed under the terrorist group's occupation.

There were no plans to immediately rebuild the monastery, but that changed earlier this week after a false rumor of a Christian family being terrorized by some of the town's Muslim inhabitants had spread. 

"After false rumors were spread about a Christian family being terrorized by the Muslim inhabitants of Al Arabi neighborhood in Mosul, young Muslim volunteers from that neighborhood headed to the Monastery of Mar Georges to clean it up and repair it," a statement posted to the Facebook page This is Christian Iraq, read. 

Their move aims to send a message of tolerance, peace and unity amid the most difficult of circumstances, and the whole campaign was launched under the slogans "Mosul is yours as it's ours" and "Our differences are our strength." 

Iraq has one of the smallest, yet oldest, Christian communities in the world. 

Under the rule of IS (Daesh), hundreds of Christian sites are said to have been destroyed, including Iraq's oldest Christian monastery. 

According to Iraqi News, Mosul's complete liberation is set to be declared within a week, and Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has already issued orders to prepare for celebrations in the country.