What Is Sharia? | Andrew March
Вставка
- Опубліковано 12 тра 2019
- CC: 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪
What is Sharia? Watch Andrew March, Associate Prof. of Political Science at UMass Amherst, explain everything you always wanted to know about Sharia but were afraid to ask.
Subtitles/CC: 🇺🇸 English | 🇪🇸 ¿Qué es la Sharia? | 🇫🇷 Qu'est-ce que la charia ? | 🇩🇪 Was ist Scharia?
Follow us on social media:
Facebook: / emirsteincenter
Twitter: / emirsteincenter
Instagram: / emirsteincenter
Website:
www.emir-stein.org
Script:
Sharia as a Path to God
Andrew F. March
For many of us in America, “Sharia” is a household word, familiar from the media and political debates. But what is Sharia and how much do ordinary Americans really know about it? We may think of it as “Islamic law” but that doesn’t tell us very much if we know little about the Islamic tradition. I’m not a Muslim myself, but I am a scholar of Islamic law, and I often find myself introducing Sharia to college students whose only knowledge of Islam might come from news reports about distant and confusing events.
I tell them that for Muslims, Sharia means the “way” or “path” to God. I also explain that it’s broader than just law, and it refers to the very idea of God communicating with humans through revelation. This is why for Muslims, the Sharia includes God’s messages to previous prophets, from Noah to Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. This shouldn’t be a surprise-Muslims see God’s revelation to Muhammad as a continuation, and completion, of the message revealed to the earlier Jewish and Christian prophets.
But while the Sharia is not just law, it is law. It contains rules of behavior. But Muslim legal scholars of the past described the Sharia not so much as a codified rulebook, like our tax code, nor as merely a set of higher principles, like the idea of natural law, but as the ongoing search for God’s prescriptions for human action. Like the Mosaic law, the Sharia is the discovery of the rules that will allow believers us to obey God.
Muslims understand that these rules of Sharia reflect broader purposes and values. Scholars and theologians have traditionally said that the entire Sharia is designed to protect human welfare, which they define through 6 core universal interests: life, religion, reason, wealth, family and honor.
For example, the Sharia prohibits the consumption of alcohol. But scholars don’t just say that this is because God has forbidden it - but also because it is God’s will that humans protect and preserve their reason or intellect, which is necessary for making correct moral decisions.
The Sharia also prohibits sexual relations outside of marriage. This is not just because of divine decree, but because it preserves family bonds. At the same time, the Sharia prohibits false accusations of sexual immorality. This protects human dignity and honor, which are necessary for living a good life. So the Sharia should first be understood by its goals and values before its rules.
What then are those rules? And if they are not codified, how are they known? Muslim jurists discovered these rules through 4 primary sources: the Quran, the words and actions of the Prophet Muhammad, the universal agreement about a matter by the Muslim community (or its scholars), and the careful use of analogy.
Law usually refers to the public sphere, but most of the Sharia’s rulings are about private spiritual practice, such as prayer, fasting, charity, and so on. And while rulings on social relations from marriage, divorce, sales, contracts, and inheritance remain a living part of the Sharia, their implementation in modern societies varies from country to country. Sometimes it is based purely on personal conviction-as in the case of American Muslims voluntarily giving to charity or following Islamic finance laws.
Importantly: Very few of the areas of behavior and social relations the Sharia governs have only a single rule on which all jurists agree. Scholars always accepted and recognized reasonable disagreement, because interpretation could rarely provide complete certainty about God’s intentions.
Yet this did not mean that anyone could just impose their own understanding of God’s law on others, especially through force. While the Sharia also encompasses certain rulings on civil procedure, aspects of crime and punishment, and even warfare, only public authorities could establish courts with the power to enforce Sharia rulings.
Today, this has changed in a number of ways. In nations where Muslims are minorities-such as the United States-Muslim scholars emphasize that the Sharia makes it obligatory for Muslims to follow the secular laws of the lands where they live.
...
I converted to Islam Alhamdulila after visiting Istanbul and OMAN
Nice.. let's talk
May Allah make every thing good easy for you.
don't forget that even USA has part of the sharia law , (military laws )
In 1935 the US Supreme Court honored the Prophet Muhammad as one of the Greatest Law Givers in the History of the World. Fact!
lemane lemso sure?
@@tauhidaman007 Thomas Jefferson owned a Qur'an and even hosted a feast for Muslims to break their fast in the White House. He bought the Qur'an literally 11 years before drafting the Declaration of Independence. So who is more American? You? Or one of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson?
and he happen to be the one founder with a copy of the quran , and on his grave (freedom of religion!!!) until now
@@tauhidaman007 Look it up. It is true.
@@tauhidaman007 ...but I am not sure if it was 1935.
@@tauhidaman007 yes
Never thought I was gonna learn something about my own religion from a Non Muslim.
Informative. I am a muslim and I didn't know most of these details.
Vlla dashamir pak a shum per cfare behet fjal? sepse spo e kuptoj !!?
I am a professional translator and would like to translate this video into Arabic. The translation option here is locked.
Thank you for your interest. If you would like to translate the video, you can always send it to us so that we can check it. We can then add it to the video.
To the one that did this video. As a Muslim I can say that u have understood very well Sharia law. God bless u. We hope u continue in your work
Turk Kilic God bless you or God guide you?
Thank you for the video, There is a verse in the Quran if applied by the human kind, mostly 99% of financial court cases disappear. It is in Baqarh the second chapter in Quran, verse 188 :
And do not consume one another's wealth unjustly or send it [in bribery] to the rulers in order that [they might aid] you [to] consume a portion of the wealth of the people in sin, while you know [it is unlawful].
Thanks it was a good explanation. Learn more about religions, and I am an atheist.
Thank you for watching this video. It would be greatly appreciated if you could share the video with your friends. Also, please watch our other videos.
Sharia also insure that non-muslims have their own rules and not forced to accept the Islamic rules.
That's why non-muslims accepted Arabs after the early Islamic conquests.
4:59 The map is wrong. Bangladesh, Malaysia,Kosovo, Brunei,Albania,Bosnia and Harzegovina, Somalia and Nigeria is missing.
WE ARE MUSLIMS TOO!
Yes you are Muslims and we love you as our Muslim brothers and sisters.
Ok man
If they are going to adress every countrt with muslims it would be around 203 countries
The napoleonian code that is still in use nowadays, in France, was mostly based on the islamic malekite school of thought, which is one interpretation of the sharia law. Auguste le Compte mentioned it in his writings...
Here is muslims guide to haven :
step 1 : believe in God his messengers , his angels and the judgement day
Step 2 : follow the 5 pillars of islam
Step 3 : just be a good person to the best of your ability
Thanks Sir great explain Ramadan Mubarak to All Muslim around the world from Eritrea 🇪🇷 Africa,
Same to you; brother from india.
Same to you bro, brother from Somalia 🇸🇴🌹
Ramadan Kareem from Terengganu, Malaysia 🇲🇾
Outstanding what a great video Andrew. May God bless you and protect you and continue with your work.
I am a muslim my whole life but I wasn't that clear until I saw this beautiful and clear explanation by this highly talented orator person. Thank you and God Allah bless you.
Amazing. This is so well explained. Ramadan Mubarak to all those observing!
im a catholic and learning about other's religion is very intersting
Wow this is the video I’ve been waiting all my life for
Andrew, I appreciate you taking the time to create this video.
It's funny how Americans like to debate on things, that they have zero knowledge of.
May God reward you all in this channel for taking the effort to propagate truth and protect the community of Muslims. My sincere prayers for all of you, so impressed by your genuine kindness
You've been very informative for a person like me who understood Sharia differently or didn't understand it at all. Thank you very much!
THANK YOU so much for doing this great video. You are amazing and showing the world what is truth and reality. I'm a Muslim and I pray in this Holy month of Ramadan that May Allah bless you with the wealth of Eman. You are AMAZING!😍😘❤❤
That was 100% true I opened this video expecting someone who curses islam like any other video but I was surprised to see someone explaining it ❤️
Thanks mate for a balanced view about sharia. God bless you
Brilliant discussion. Thank you professor. I didn't know Much about that. Know I am clear.
Wow. I actually learned something. Keep up the good work.
Amazing explanation. Thank you emir-Stein for this beautiful channel
I am a Muslim and I learned a lot from this video..... in this busy world we got far away from religion May Allah bless us
Thank you for the effort. Peace.
Thank you brother for nicely elaborations of Sharia. Even most of the Muslims including me did not know the actual meaning and point of views about SHARIA. It was fantastically described by you. Thanks again! ❤
That's good work Brother. Thanks from Philadelphia
I love this channel... I hope the message spread everywhere
This is highly informative. Thanks.
Perfectly explained! Now I know what to share with my non-Muslim friends.
Wow, what a professor let's gloss over the book and the man...cair must love this guy. If he was my professor I would have to spend extra time outside of class filling in the holes so that I could actually receive an education.
Thank you so much for this clear and detailed explanation. I am a Muslim and you've just put into words what many find it hard to explain.
Excellent narration!!! Very insightful!!
Amazing. Thank you. My God bless you. Keep it up.
Great video! But, I wished you covered the misunderstandings of Sharia, or anything particularly incorrect about it.
Thank you! We're just getting started. A lot more is in store. In the meantime, you can all be part of this initiative by sharing our videos far and wide.
@Cant_Touch_This Thank you for your information!
@dimmy dunk first of all ppl should accept each other unconditionally and without any racial or baised feeling, its just about if u want to know something take it from its home not hearing about it from far and distorting media
Thank your video sir. But when you say continuation of Jewish and Christian prophets, although it is correct, it is not accurate. It should be continuation of prophets of God (the same one God) because Ibrahim is not a christian nor a jew. But he is following the religion of God.
Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 140:
Nay! do you say that Ibrahim and Ismail and Yaqoub and the tribes were Jews or Christians? Say: Are you better knowing or Allah? And who is more unjust than he who conceals a testimony that he has from Allah? And Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.
Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 136:
Say: We believe in Allah and (in) that which had been revealed to us, and (in) that which was revealed to Ibrahim and Ismail and Ishaq and Yaqoub and the tribes, and (in) that which was given to Musa and Isa, and (in) that which was given to the prophets from their Lord, we do not make any distinction between any of them, and to Him do we submit.
Abraham is a Hebrew so as Moses, Noah and Christ (Jesus)... what does it tells you about their origins?
Just to add an argument:
How can Abraham be Jewish or Christian as Moses and Jesus came AFTER him.
It is clearly mentioned in Quran that Ibrahim is neither jew nor christitan but was on the Deen e Ilaahi.(the releigion of GOD). And rememeber that the GOD is refferring this to Islam the GOD's releigion and these verses of Quran are the revelations to the final Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
You guys just need to read Quran for understanding.
Trixy McSasa'i
How are Abraham and Noah a Hebrew?
What is the difference between a Hebrew and a Jew?
Basically all Prophets and Messengers submitted to the will of God and Muslim term simply means those who submit to the will of God ..that's why we Muslims say that all the Prophets and Messengers simply submitted to the will of the Almighty God ..preached his oneness... so they are Muslims....but ppl are confused and end up asking how can Adam and Noah and Jesus and Moses( peace on them all) be muslims
Thank you for the great video 👍🏼
Andrew March.. wow, great explanation, simple and precise..
Just subscribed, this scholar has truly given an honest explanation & view on the Sharia
Shriah begins from ALLAH's message and its a endless chain ...but it grows from the hearts
what this channel is doing is truly remarkable.
I wanna give personally thanks to this channel for providing the pure knowledge.❤
Thank you for the traduction in french... 🙂
pas de quoi.
5:39 The definition of Sharia❤
So informative.
Finally someone which rivals pragerU
Yeah!!!
hate pragerU..spreads fake information
What a explanation. I will show this video in organisation behaviour class. Hope this will give knowledge behaviour, values, rule, objective.
Thank you for this Prof Andrew
Alhamdulilah for the explaining the Sharia law for a baby to understand.
Thank you, my Allah swt bless you in this world and in the next...
This would never pop on a neo white nationalist's recommended feed I can bet lol
God bless you, sir!
I like it when non Muslims are scholars of sharia. More education means less bias. It is so valuable to everyone and I respect these scholars search for truth
Well said mate 👍👏👏 keep up the good work on clearing misconceptions about Islam😇✨
Great video!
Thank you for the video..
Read Quran everyday and never ignore your five daily prayers
Thanks for informative vid
Very well explained...thank you.
Thank you! Hope you get a million subs
A beautiful and informative video. Someone please share it with Joker Wood. Thanks.
Very beautifully presented summary. The best I’ve seen from a non-Muslim. Thank you.
Thanks for explaining Sharia!
Half knowledge is danger then no knowledge.
Good information. Thank you very much
I learn alot from this video , thanks prof
Thank you guys for amazing videos and knowledge for people from other religions and Muslims too
I have learned this before I was 10. But thank you letting me remember
*A Brilliant Synopsis of The Islamic Sharia.*
Thanks Andrew F. March and Emir-Stein Center
Allhumdunillah I’m Muslim allah bless every one to learn about Islam ☪️
Very good talk, thank you,
I am extremely sorry for to watch anything
You people are doing well and best things.
I am sorry for what I wrote before and hereafter I insha Allah never lie at all to my best.
Thanks for the Video.
Nice information.
You guys explain so Good .. 👍
Very good video nicely explained
Good ,well explained sir,thanks
Masha Allah explained very well
Very nice content......!!! You are really doing a great job.....but i think you started this project very late.....!!!!
Nice information.Thankyou
u know a lot of islam , but i really wich that u accept it.. knowing every thing has no value without believing that there is only one god
Sharia is the best law in world 🌍 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Instead of accusations against islamic law..
People should wonderful that its a religion with complete set of rules and regulations....its truly wonderful
Excellent discussions
Thanks . I m Muslim but i did not know about such important topics
Well done..Thankyou very much
I am analysing they speak after great research ,thats make me happy .
Excellent and exciting!
Excellent job !!!
Great lecture thanks
I love your videos thank you so much, I hope that your channel will put an end to the misunderstanding between Muslims and non Muslims
EXCELLENT PRESENTATION . THANKS FROM FRANCE
love this channel ♥️❤️😍😍😍
Thank you👍
Good to see you. You are on the right path.