A prominent Egyptian Salafist cleric, has caused a stir on Social Media, after he suggested Islam allows men to have sex with their has suggested Islam allows men to have sex with their illegitimate daughters and marry them.

Dailymail.co.uk reports that Mazen Al-Sersawi cites prominent Muslim scholar Imam Al-Shafi’i as saying because illegitimate daughters are not officially attributed to their fathers they can be married to them.

He makes the claims in a video which has gone viral and he has been widely criticized for the comments.

In the video, Al-Sersawi said Imam Al-Shafi’i is known for saying men may marry their own daughters that are born out of wedlock

Al-Sersawi, who teaches at the prestigious Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, claims Al-Shafi’I says a girl born in an adulterous relationship is ‘not really his daughter’.

He -Mazen Al Sersawi- didn't approve such behaviour- rather he condemned it. Here is the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgPSUIh2I7U?t=1m32s

At 1:32 he says "Sunni Muslims respect the 4 Imams and know their status so that their good deeds increase. When I warn people about Shafie's opinion, for example what's attributed to him about.....2:36 This is certainly a great error, but he has seas of good deeds"