What is ‘SHARIAH’?
Well Shariah is the Islamic Law. It is the religious
legal system that governs the political,social,economical, and moral
duties of faithful Muslims.The sources of Islam on which all beliefs,
principles and rulings are based are represented by the two Revelations:
the Qur’an and Sunnah. This is what
is implied by Islam being a divinely-revealed religion: its pillars are
based on infallible texts that were sent down from heaven, which are
represented in the verses of the Holy Qur’an and the texts of the saheeh
Prophetic Sunnah. From these two sources the scholars derived other
principles on which rulings may be based. Some scholars called them the
sources of sharee’ah or the sources of Islamic legislation. They are:
ijmaa’ (scholarly consensus) and qiyaas (analogy). Imam al-Shaafa’i (may
Allaah have mercy on him) said: No one has any right whatsoever to say
that something is halaal or haraam except on the basis of knowledge, and
the basis of knowledge is a text in the Qur’aan or Sunnah, or ijmaa’
(scholarly consensus) or qiyaas (analogy).
But, Unfortunately the term Shariah gets people excited. And as soon as the term Shariah is mentioned People’s imagination goes to hands and heads getting chopped off. Thanks to Media!
Time for Education
Out of the 6236 verses of the Quran, less than 9% are about law or
legal issues.When analysing a typical work of Islamic “law”, we can see
that 65% of it is not even “law,” instead it is personal custom and
devotion.If we took the 35% of Islamic legal compendiums dealing with
contracts, family law, and state power as a derived from the Quran, that
would be only 2.45% of the Quran. Only 5% of those works deals with
issues of state power, which if one claimed was being drawn from the
Quran directly would account for only 0.35% of the verses of the Quran.
and,
So don’t fall into propaganda. Learn and educate yourself by directly
going to Islamic Sources and not to any Polemical and Orientalists
works.
Addendum: These charts were created after analyzing
the number of verses on law, approximated by most classical scholars to
be 500 in number, then comparing those on a granular basis to the
overall number of verse 6236. The percentages for the categories used,
other than law and related topics, are approximations due to the overlap
in topics. The categories themselves are taken from Ibn Ashour’s
introduction to his al-Tahrir wal-Tanweer, an extensive exegesis of the
Quran. The categories used in the second slide are found in almost every
standard work of Islamic law (fiqh) and the percentages here are
approximations based on chapter length and topical coverage in those
works as a whole.
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