MANILA, Philippines — Sunday is the final day of the 12th Series of Shari'ah Bar Examinations for 206 examinees under the supervision of the Supreme Court at its Old Building on Taft Avenue corner Padre Faura Street in Manila.

The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) said the examinees wrestled on July 3 with the subjects Persons, Family Relations and Property and Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Customary Laws or Adat.

For the July 10 final day the subjects are Procedure in Shari'ah Courts (8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.) and Succession, Wills/Adjudication and Settlement of Estate (1 p.m. to 5 p.m.).

Bai Omera D. Dianalan Lucman, NCMF secretary and chief executive officer (CEO), said the program's implementation was inherited by the NCMF from the defunct Office on Muslim Affairs (OMA).

"We in the Muslim Commission are only to glad to continue implementing the Shari'ah Development Program and we are anxious about its prospects of being improved even as we thank the Office of the President, the Supreme Court and other government agencies for their continuing support," said Lucman.

She noted that this year's batch of examinees at 206 out of 311 Shari'ah training graduates in Mindanao and in the National Capital Region is the biggest in number since the first Shari'ah Bar tests in 1983 which had 190.

Those who pass the Shari'ah bar will join the pool of Shari'ah counselors from where judges for the Islamic courts in Mindanao shall be appointed.