Within the Identify of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
All thanks and reward are attributable to Allah, from Whom we search assist and forgiveness. We search refuge with Allah from the evils of ourselves and the evil penalties of our deeds. Whoever Allah guides won’t ever be misled and whoever strays from Him won’t ever discover a information. I bear witness that there isn’t any god besides Allah. Likewise, I bear witness that Muhammad is the servant and the Messenger of Allah.
Pricey brothers and sisters! Let our brothers who misunderstood Shari’ah know that Shari’ah is the best way of peace, unity, mercy and happiness, and the phrase Shari’ah refers back to the whole faith of Islam, which Allah selected for mankind, to guide them forth from the depths of darkness to the sunshine. It’s what He has prescribed for them and defined to them of instructions and prohibitions, halal and haram.
The one who follows the Shari’ah of Allah, concerning as permissible what He has permitted and concerning as prohibited what He has prohibited, will attain triumph and success.
The one who goes in opposition to the Shari’ah of Allah is exposing himself to Allah’s wrath, anger and punishment.
Allah the Almighty says:
“Then We put you, [O Muhammad], on an ordained means in regards to the matter [of religion]; so observe it and don’t observe the inclinations of those that have no idea.” [Qur’an, 45:18]
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Imam Al-Khalil Ibn Ahmad (might Allah have mercy on him) stated:
“The phrase Shari’ah refers to what Allah has prescribed for individuals concerning issues of faith, and what He has commanded them to stick to of prayer, fasting, Hajj and so forth. It’s the shir‘ah (the place within the river the place one might drink).” [See Al-Ayn, volume 1, page 253, see also as-Sihah by al-Jawhari, volume 3, page 1236]
Imam Ibn Hazm (might Allah have mercy on him) stated:
“Shari’ah is what Allah, might He be exalted, prescribed on the lips of His Prophet (Peace be upon him) with regard to faith, and on the lips of the Prophets (Peace be upon them) who got here earlier than him. The ruling of the abrogating textual content is to be considered the ultimate ruling.”
The linguistic origin of the time period Shari’ah refers back to the place wherein a rider is ready to come and drink water, and the place within the river the place one might drink. Allah the Most Excessive says:
“He has ordained for you of faith what He enjoined upon Nuh (Noah) and that which We’ve revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what We enjoined upon Ibrahim (Abraham) and Musa (Moses) and Isa (Jesus) – to determine the faith and never be divided therein. Tough for many who affiliate others with Allah is that to which you invite them. Allah chooses for Himself whom He wills and guides to Himself whoever turns again [to Him].” [Qur’an, 42:13]
Shaikhul Islam Ibn Taymiyah (might Allah have mercy on him) stated:
“Man has no proper to go in opposition to Shari’ah in any of his affairs; relatively every thing that’s good for him and his effectively being is referred to in Shari’ah, whether or not it has to do along with his main points or minor points, in all his conditions and actions, in his interactions and dealings with different individuals, and so forth. Reward be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. The rationale for that’s that Shari’ah means obedience to Allah and His Messenger, and people in authority (leaders) amongst us. Allah the Almighty says: “O you who’ve believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and people in authority amongst you.” [Qur’an, 4:58] He has enjoined obedience to Him and obedience to His Messenger in lots of verses of the Qur’an, and He has forbidden disobedience to Him and disobedience to His Messenger. He has promised His good pleasure, forgiveness, mercy and Paradise in return for obedience to Him and obedience to His Messenger, and He has warned of the other of that in return for disobedience to Him and disobedience to His Messenger. Subsequently everybody, whether or not he’s a scholar, chief, devoted worshipper, or particular person concerned in dealings and transactions with others, should obey Allah and His Messenger in no matter he’s doing, whether or not it’s educating and studying, judging, enjoining what is nice or forbidding what’s evil, doing any deed, doing an act of worship, or the rest. The true that means of Shari’ah is following the messengers and obeying them, however going in opposition to Shari’ah means going in opposition to obedience to the messengers, and obedience to the messengers is the faith of Allah.” [See Majmu‘u Fatawa, volume 19, page 309]
The students of the Everlasting Committee stated:
“Shari’ah is that with which Allah despatched down His Books and despatched His messengers to individuals, in order that they’d put it into apply by the use of worshipping Allah and in search of to attract near Him, in accordance with what the messengers (Peace be upon all of them) enjoined. The suitable approach to be adopted is what’s in accordance with this; in different phrases, what’s in accordance with the directions of Allah Who despatched it right down to the final of His messengers, Muhammad (Peace be upon him) as He stated: “And, [moreover], that is My path, which is straight, so observe it; and don’t observe [other] methods, for you can be separated from His means.” [Qur’an, 6:153] And it’s what’s in accordance with the phrases of the Prophet (Peace be upon him): “My Ummah will cut up into seventy-three sects, all of whom shall be within the Fireplace besides one.” It was stated: Who’re they, O Messenger of Allah? He stated: “Those that observe the trail that I and my Companions observe.” [See Fatawa Lajnah ad-Daimah, volume 2, page 219]
Revered brothers and sisters! Additionally let our brothers perceive that the Islamic regulation, often known as the Shari’ah, is the framework of final actuality and the moral steering that Muslim students have derived from the direct Revelation of Allah to man. Though Allah reveals the sample of final reality not directly by means of the workings of the bodily universe and within the observable nature of man, the final word supply of information about each bodily and metaphysical actuality – and due to this fact the final word supply of the Shari’ah – is the Qur’an. This divine textual content was revealed straight in human language to the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), and is exemplified within the Sunnah, which studies the Prophet’s understanding of this Closing Revelation as proven by means of his phrases and deeds.
All Revelation to the Jewish Prophets and to Jesus is binding on Muslims until particularly abrogated within the Qur’an. The Shari’ah is a particular type of the shar’ or path to Allah which the Qur’an states was revealed to all of the Prophets of the Abrahamic succession.
For the reason that main goal of Islamic regulation is to information man’s seek for reality, Shari’ah touches on each transcendent and materials expertise. All elements of each particular person’s religious understandings and undertakings, which come below the rubric of purification, or tazkiyyah, needs to be consciously topic to the reality-check of Islamic regulation. This deeply religious nature of the Shari’ah gives the angle for understanding and appearing in accordance with the moral or ethical requirements that the creator (Allah) has offered to information each particular person’s and group’s relations with different people and with the remainder of Creation. The Shari’ah due to this fact gives the final word standards for judgment on each side of 1’s particular person and social life.
The method of gaining information of Islam by means of jurisprudence, and the physique of authorized advisements so derived, is named fiqh. The Shari’ah consists each of particular guidelines and rules, often known as ahkam, that are the topic of istifta, or fiqh evaluation, and of common ideas induced by students over many centuries from examine of the Qur’an, Sunnah, and their software in on a regular basis life.
The particular directives within the Qur’an focus totally on the weather of formal worship often known as the 5 pillars of Islam, as a result of man can not purpose to this information alone. These components include the career of religion, together with the aqidah or articles of religion frequent to all Abrahamic religions; and the principles for the 5 each day prayers, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage.
The overall ideas of Islamic regulation, often known as universals (kulliyat), necessities (daruriyat), and objectives (maqasid), are derived by a system of reasoning often known as istislah, which focuses on the frequent good of mankind. This technique of thought, in flip, is a part of the broader subject of examine often known as usulul fiqh, or examine of the sources of fiqh Evaluation of the final ideas of Islarnic regulation by means of the usage of mental effort, often known as ijtihad, provides that means to the precise directives and in addition gives steering on all elements of Muslim life within the variable contexts of time and place. Islamic regulation thereby provides residing expression to an elaborate science and artwork of deciphering and making use of the injunctions of the Qur’an and the steering of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him). The event of an built-in and adaptable authorized system which focuses on what’s finest for mankind as a complete is without doubt one of the most excellent achievements of Muslim jurists (Fuqaha). The methodology of Islamic jurisprudence asserts that any ruling within the fiqh has that means solely to the extent that we are able to perceive its rationale or greater goal.
The dignity of man derives from his acceptance, earlier than the Creator of the Universe, of the duty to know proper from incorrect and to be a steward of the universe charged with caring for it and guiding it in accordance with the Divine Will. No beings in both the bodily or metaphysical worlds have such a elegant duty.
The rights of the human particular person and group derive from this duty, as a result of each particular person and group have to be free to hold out this stewardship. Each man and each lady, each Arab and each Jew, and each wealthy particular person and each poor particular person are equal of their duty to Allah and due to this fact of their dignity and of their human rights.
Islamic regulation focuses on human duty, as a result of a concentrate on human rights can devolve into the selfishness of in search of to maximise one’s personal freedom to do no matter one desires on the expense of others. If everybody would fulfill all of his or her duties, individually and collectively, then everybody could be accorded the complete vary of human rights.
The students of Islam, have recognized a half dozen overarching duties, although some students will condense these to 5 or develop the quantity by elevating a secondary duty to the extent of the common or important. The primary three concern the necessities of life itself, whereas the following three concern the standard of life.
The primary three important areas of duty or responsibility in Islamic regulation are:
1. Respect for all times, or “the suitable to life” often known as haqqul hayat, This requires not merely respect for the unborn after the spirit or ruh has been breathed into the fetus, but in addition such social duties as respect for non-belligerents in battle and the usage of dispute settling mechanisms at any time when doable to keep away from violence that may threaten the lives of oneself or others. Respect for all times requires most principally an understanding that lasting peace may result solely from justice, and that due to this fact stability needs to be sought because the by-product of sound overseas coverage relatively than as its direct purpose. Equally, crime needs to be combated primarily by addressing the causes relatively than the outcomes of the prison mentality.
2. Respect for group, or proper to 1’s id as a member of a household, group, or nation, often known as haqqul nasl. This concentrate on the household, and extra broadly on increasing circles of group to incorporate mankind and even all sentient beings within the universe, is exclusive to Islamic regulation, as a result of it implies that sovereignty lies not within the extent of a rustic’s or a authorities’s energy, because it does in Euro-American worldwide regulation, however within the inherent dignity of the human particular person in group. This acknowledgment of the inherent proper of the particular person to stay in a collection of legally recognised communities permits a number of ranges of sovereignty, all topic to the best sovereignty of Allah, and contrasts with the idea of unique sovereignty discovered within the so-called “nation-state” of the mid-twentieth century.
3. Respect totally free, personal enterprise, with broad capital possession, often known as haqqul mal. The precept of freedom for particular person individuals to personal the technique of manufacturing has been primary in all Islamic scholarship till the 20 th century. Sadly, the precept of equal alternatives to personal capital or the instruments of manufacturing has been largely ignored for over a thousand years as a result of varied “leaders” understood that concentrated political energy requires concentrated property possession. Denial of entry to capital possession in a capital-intensive economic system can quantity to the denial of the suitable to life itself. Subsequently all establishments that work in apply to pay attention possession, together with the financing of financial progress by means of the usage of curiosity relatively than by risk-sharing in joint-ownership, are “unlawful,” that’s, morally illegitimate, in Islamic regulation.
The subsequent three of the universals, necessities, or functions of Islamic regulation, which concern the standard of life, are:
4. Political self-determination, or haqqul hurriyah. That is often often known as “the suitable to political freedom.” Islamically, nevertheless, this time period emphasises the duty of each the dominated and the rulers to determine everlasting establishments designed to facilitate broad-based political participation by each member of a polity in its governance in order that they will help decide their very own quick well-being and long-run future.
This common, like every of the opposite 5, comprises a second-order stage of duties that serve to elucidate and perform the first duty. Within the context of political self- dedication, this subsequent decrease stage of duty, often known as hadyiyat, consists of ijma, which is the responsibility of the ruled to succeed in consensus on essential points, and shurah, which is the responsibility of the chief to be conscious of this consensus. In a fancy society, this is likely to be completed finest by utilizing an idea of a hierarchy of assemblies that culminate in a nationwide parliament.
The third needed factor within the system of presidency prescribed in Islamic regulation, along with the manager and legislative, is an unbiased judiciary charged with making use of the ideas of Islamic regulation, particularly as they’re spelled out in a proper structure masking the organs, strategies, and ideas of governance chosen by the legislature. The judicial space of presidency is designed to restrict each the dominated and the ruler in order that the final word sovereign, each in idea and actually, shall be Allah.
5. Dignity, often known as haqqul karama. The responsibility to respect human dignity is on the core of all Islamic regulation, as a result of the important goal of the Shari’ah is to assist individuals acknowledge and deepen their relationship to Allah and categorical this greater stage of being particularly of their relationships with one another. There are two main elements of this fifth common precept of Islamic regulation.
A very powerful side of the precept of dignity is the responsibility to respect every particular person’s want to hunt and worship Allah in his or her personal means. That is identified in Western thought as “freedom of faith.” In each conventional Islamic and conventional American thought, this most important factor of the dignity of man requires that the federal government keep away from any sectarian bias in finishing up its responsibility to facilitate freedom of faith in public affairs.
One other side of this precept of dignity, which is second in significance solely as a result of it’s so usually ignored, is “gender equality.” Whereas the Prophet Muharnmad (Peace be upon him) and the Islamic teachings of the Prophetic interval had been breathtakingly revolutionary in recognising the divinely ordained rights and duties of ladies in society, the apply of later Muslims degenerated to the extent of their neighbours and has largely remained at this stage whereas the remainder of the world has begun to know and share the sophistication of the unique Islamic heritage.
Islamic regulation recognises a better duty of spouse and mom to take care of the house and youngsters, and a better duty of the husband and father to assist the household. The household, nevertheless, is a mutual assist group, whereby all duties are held in frequent by means of the precept of collective duty, or fard kifayah. It follows from this that if any responsibility will not be being adequately met, every member has a private duty, or fard ain, to do no matter is required to satisfy that responsibility, whether or not it’s the husband washing dishes or the spouse working exterior the house.
Equally, to the extent that dwelling duties and the work of economic assist for the household have been satisfactorily completed, each husband and spouse have equal duty to take part in social and political management when wanted for the great of the group and even to simply accept the best judicial, legislative, government, or entrepreneurial place within the land whether it is supplied. There the criterion for judgment will not be girls’s rights or males’s rights, however particular person duty. Gender is irrelevant when the difficulty is private duty to fulfill the wants of society in accordance with the necessities of Islamic regulation.
6. Data, or haqqul ilm. A key to success in each side of personal and public life is the responsibility to pursue information. For the reason that highest goal of each particular person is religious understanding, freedom to pursue the trail of religious information is paramount. We had been created, nevertheless, as people not as angels, so we now have an obligation to pursue no matter information is beneficial to us individually and collectively in finishing up our duties: to assist the marginalised in society, to advertise justice amongst individuals and nations, to multiply the fabric bounties of Allah, to work constructively within the political course of, to take part with individuals of different faiths in addressing all the issues of society, and in any other case fulfilling all the necessities positioned upon us by Islamic regulation.
The responsibility to respect information goes past the destructive job of defending freedom of thought and expression, restricted solely by the duties to respect human dignity, and extends to the constructive obligation of each particular person to be taught as a lot as one can all through one’s life with the intention to fulfill the aim for which one was created.
The character and particular obligations inherent in Islamic regulation make it not solely distinctive amongst mankind’s authorized programs however the most effective suited because the paradigm of thought inside which all religions and all peoples can cooperate in constructing a greater world.
Lastly, I ask Allah the Almighty to reform all our affairs, to offer us with sturdy will to vary our scenario for the higher and to offer the whole Ummah with glory, power and unity. I ask Him additionally to simply accept our deeds, prayers, and supplications.
I additionally pray, might the Almighty Allah take away all our tears, all our worries, all our sorrows and all our pains and substitute them with full happiness, full smiles and full good well being, ameen Ya Mujib!
All good reward is because of Allah, Lord of the worlds. Could the peace, blessings and salutations of Allah be upon our noble Messenger, Muhammad (Peace be upon him), and upon his household, his Companions and his true followers.
Murtadha Muhammad Gusau is the Chief Imam of: Nagazi-Uvete Jumu’ah Mosque; and Late Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Okene Mosque, Okene, Kogi State, Nigeria. He may be reached through: gusauimam@gmail.com; or +2348038289761.
This Friday sermon (Jumu’ah Khutbah) was ready for supply in the present day Friday, Sha’aban 08, 1446 AH (7 February, 2025).
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