Re: SHARIA OR ISLAMIC LAW


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Sharia or Islamic Law
Enver Masud, The War on Islam
Feisal Abdul Rauf, Imam of Al-Fatah Mosque in New York City, writes in
Islam, a Sacred Law: "Centuries before the European notion of separation of
Church and State...[Islamic jurists] recognized such a conceptual separation
and divided the body of Shariah rules into two categories: religious
observances and worldly matters. The first,... they observed to be beyond
the scope of modification. The second [subject to interpretation] covers the
following:
1. Criminal Law: This includes crimes such as murder, larceny, fornication,
drinking alcohol, libel.
2. Family Law: This...covers marriage, divorce, alimony, child custody,
inheritance.
3. Transactions: This covers property rights, contracts, rules of sale,
hire, gift, loans and debts, deposits, partnerships, and damages."


The division into "religious observances" and "worldly matters" as described
above is most certainly NOT the equivalent of the separation between Church
and State.

No aspect of life is independent of Sharia since it is supposedly the law of
God. Christianity is all about private faith and individual redemption.
Islam legislates on all aspects of private life and is superior to all
man-made legislation in the form of constitutions and jurisprudence.

So the concept of separation of Church and State is fundamentally
un-Islamic.




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