"I said 'No. It is better for him to find help. Maybe he will be good by you.' A woman living alone with children could face too many problems," the mufti recounted, before taking another call.
The UAE, a staunch Western ally, follows the Maliki school of Sunni Islam and the government considers itself to be a leading advocate of the "moderate, middle way."
"The legal opinions which have come out of this school have always been balanced and moderate," said Khaled Saif Al Neyadi, the call centre's assistant general manager.
The 48 muftis who answer the phones - there are also a handful of women scholars - are subject to strict a screening by the Islamic Affairs Authority, officials say.
They work in teams, with six men and two women staffing two six-hour shifts, between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on all working days. A Skeleton staffs answers the phones for "religious emergencies" during the night.
Inspiration for the call centre came from telephone banking, he said.
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Moderate Islamist here
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