Sharia and Fiqh Explained
According to classical Muslims, the word of God is law and law is the command of God. This law is known as Sharia. Thus Sharia is the divine law encoded in the Quran. The divine laws had been given by God to help man overcome the physical and human challenges of a particular environment. Quran constitutes the things for understanding the commands of God for a given time-place situation as being a legal Muslim is meaningless if one is not a real Muslim at the same time. Thus the Sharia is the pure and complete guidance for human behavior. There were different human interpretations and understandings of divine ways by various schools of Islamic law. These interpretations were inevitable in the dynamic physical and human environment. Although these interpretations are not Sharia; thus Sharia is different from the interpretation of it, Fiqh, and statutes. The literal meaning of Sharia is ‘way’, ‘path towards water source’; thus, it means the way to be followed by disciples ...