The True Sharia in the Qur’an

The word Sharia means “path.” A Muslim can easily tell what “path” to follow by looking at the Qur’an. Few things are unlawful in the Qur’an, and these are made clear with explicit prohibitions. They are not open to discussion or interpretation. For example, killing, adultery, earning interest, eating pork or drinking blood are all unlawful actions revealed in verses of the Qur’an in the most definitive terms. This is one important characteristic of the Qur’an. People who aim to come up with prohibitions by interpreting verses in the light of their own desires always produce their own deductions from them. Yet God prohibits what is unlawful with definitive pronouncements, as in this verse:

God reveals in the Qur’an that there will be people who fabricate what is lawful or prohibited in the name of Islam:

Following the time of our Prophet (pbuh), numerous communities emerged who invented lies against God. Since these communities did not take the Qur’an as their guide, they could call whatever they wished to be lawful or unlawful.

However, there are some communities whose characteristics God particularly emphasizes: “They make unlawful the good things made lawful.” Our Lord says in the Qur’an:

The superstitious system applied under the name of Sharia, yet which is completely incompatible with Islam, is a result of being distanced from the Qur’an. The true Sharia set out in verses, the true path of the Qur’an in other words, can be defined as follows:

The Sharia of the Qur’an means love, respect, and affection and protection toward people of all faiths and opinions. The Sharia of the Qur’an insists on democracy, and freedom of ideas prevails. Under the Sharia of the Qur’an, people are knowledgeable, educated, open-minded, respectful of other ideas, happy, outward-looking, modern, high quality, optimistic, value art and science and value love and friendship. There is no hatred, intolerance, conflict, fighting, despotism, imposition, threatening, unhappiness, anger or war in the Sharia of the Qur’an.

The failure to apply the true system of the Sharia in the Qur’an, which would bring with it the delights cited above, and violence, lovelessness, lack of quality and imposition being misrepresented as the Sharia of the Qur’an is of course a very terrible thing: Blaming Islam is not the answer, however. Those who blame Islam do grave harm by trying to eliminate it as the sole answer to radicalism, violence and savagery. They are actually smoothing the radicals’ path by striving to weaken Islam, in their own mind. It is not their accusations or the weapons they manufacture that will eliminate radicalism and the false beliefs propagated under the name of Islam. The only way to accomplish that is with the conception of the true Islam. There is a problem of a false belief and false beliefs can only be done away with by replacing them with true ones.