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Sharia Law: Is Its Goal to Subjugate Humanity?
[Clarion Project] A legitimate question about sharia law is: Is its goal to subjugate humanity?The concept of self-governance under sharia law by Muslims in Western society has been a topic of controversy since the turn of the millennium, especially in light of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. Proponents of sharia in the West, under which many Muslims seek to settle personal affairs ‐ such as divorce, custody of children and inheritance ‐ claim it is an exercise of their freedom of religion, a human right. YET, WHAT IS SHARIA? Sharia literally means the "way" or "path." Historically articulated, it is a shorthand term for an amorphous body of legal rulings, judgments and opinions, assembled over the course of many centuries after the Muslim Prophet Muhammad’s death. It is based on the Quran and a copious number of hadiths (the sayings and acts of Muhammad) developed by the fuqaha (jurists) whose opinions enjoy an almost absolute authority over the faithful. As a rule of law, it precludes the development of human reason as it is viewed as an expression of Allah’s inscrutable will. It is this same supremacy that renders sacred and permanent the concept of inequality between the Islamic community and the non-Islamic community, between the Muslim and the non-Muslim, and between man and woman. There are two essential weaknesses of sharia, due to which the Islamic social realm has been absorbed into the whims of the political one: its autonomy and its incompletion. As a codification of customs, it does not depend on any official body (state or clerical), and therefore there is no universal concordance on its legislation within the Islamic body politic. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-11-05 |
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