Shariah A Divine Code Of Life
This simple and concise guide to the Shariah (Islamic law) explains its meaning, scope and operation, as well as helping readers understand and appreciate its value and importance in the believer’s life.
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The Shariah is one of the most misunderstood and maligned Islamic words in the West. The word conjures up images of inhuman, primitive and uncivilised practices of whipping criminals, stoning adulterers and confiding women within their homes in the minds of many people.
Shariah in itself has an underlying objective of justice and mercy. It literally means a way or a path and, more specifically, the way to a watering place. Far from being a strict penal code, it is a humane, compassionate and benevolent system of laws that guides Muslims, based on the teachings of the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
This simple and concise guide to the Shariah (Islamic law) explains its meaning, scope and operation, as well as helping readers understand and appreciate its value and importance in the believer’s life.
Additional Information
| Weight | 0.175 kg |
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| ISBN | 9780860376248 |
| Extent | 143 |
| Author | Abdur Rashid Siddiqui |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Imprint | Islamic Foundation |
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With the end of the early Islamic period, Muslim scholars came to sense that a rift had begun to emerge between the teachings and principles of Islam and Muslims daily reality and practices. The most important means by which scholars sought to restore the intimate contact between Muslims and the Quran was to study the objectives of Islam, the causes behind Islamic legal rulings and the intentions and goals underlying the Shariah, or Islamic law. They made it clear that every legal ruling in Islam was a function which it performs, an aim which it realizes, a cause , to be explicit or implicit, and an intention which it seeks to fulfill, and to all of this in order to realize benefit to human beings or to ward off harm or corruption. They showed how these intentions, and higher objectives might at times be contained explicitly in the texts of the Quran and the sunnah, while at other times, scholars might bring them to the light by means of independent reasoning based on their understanding of the Quran and the sunnah within a framework of time and space.
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