"Once you are involved in bloodshed you are no longer a genuine practitioner of Islam".
The Dalai Lama
Sharia (
shari'a),
Islamic sharia,
Islamic law (
Arabic: شريعة (IPA:
[ʃaˈriːʕa])) is the
religious law governing the members of the Islamic faith.[SUP]
[1][/SUP] It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the
Quran and the
Hadith. The term
sharia comes from the
Arabic language term
sharīʿah, which means a body of moral and religious law derived from religious
prophecy, as opposed to human legislation.[SUP]
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Sharia deals with many topics, including
crime,
politics, marriage contracts, trade regulations, religious prescriptions, and
economics, as well as personal matters such as
sexual intercourse,
hygiene,
diet,
prayer, everyday etiquette and
fasting. Adherence to sharia has served as one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Muslim faith historically.[SUP]
[5][/SUP] In its strictest definition, sharia is considered in Islam as the infallible law of
God.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia
Sharia law is the law of Islam. The Sharia (also spelled Shariah or Shari'a) law is cast from four sources:[SUP]
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- The Qur'an, which Muslims believe was verbally revealed by God to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel (Jibril).
- The actions and words of Muhammad, which is called the sunnah
- Consensus from the community by achieving recurrence
- qiyās or legal reasoning
The Sharia law itself cannot be altered, but the interpretation of the Sharia law, called "fiqh," by imams is given some leeway.
As a legal system, the Sharia law covers a very wide range of topics. While other legal codes deal primarily with public behavior, Sharia law covers public behavior, private behavior and private beliefs.
According to the Sharia law and after due process and investigation:
- Habitual theft past a specific threshold, and after repeated warnings, is punishable by amputation of a hand.
- The punishment for adultery and fornication such that it becomes a public ordeal, according to the Holy Qur'an, is lashing. Before the revelation of these verses, Muhammad followed the Judaic law in implementing the punishment of death by stoning. This was only given if the person admitted to it repeatedly, was not intoxicated and knew the repercussions. Even then, if during the punishment he repented, he was to be released.
- A woman is allowed to be accompanied by another woman in giving testimony in court for financial affairs
- A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits. The concept being that Islam puts the responsibility of earning and spending on the family on the male. Any wealth the female earns is strictly for her own use. The female also inherits from both her immediate family and through agency of her husband, her in-laws as well.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia_law
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