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The Shariah is not only concrete positive law, but also a set of values and framework for the religious life of Muslims.
The books of jurisprudence (fiqh) contain the specific laws of the Shariah, but the Shariah itself also includes ethical and spiritual teachings that are, strictly speaking, not of a legal nature, although the legal is never separated from the moral in Islam. On the basis of the Quran and Hadith, the Shariah teaches Muslims to respect their parents, to be kind to their neighbors, to be charitable, to be always truthful, to keep their word, to be honest in all affairs, and so forth.
The whole ethics of Islam is related on the individual and social plane to the Shariah, while the inner purification of the
soul and the penetration into the inward meaning of the Shariah are for the spiritual path, or the Tariqah, which is of necessity always based on the formal practice of the Divine Law.
The Shariah, in fact, determines the religious ethos of Islam on both the personal and the social level and is inseparable from the life of faith. For the vast majority of Muslims, the practice of the injunctions of the Shariah is their manner of practicing their surrender to the Will of God and of living a virtuous and righteous life leading to felicity and salvation in the Hereafter.
And those who aim to reach God in this life and to walk the path of the Tariqah to that Truth, or Haqiqah, which is the source of both the Law and the Way are more aware than anyone else how indispensable the Divine Law is, the law that alone can provide the sacred forms that are the sole gateways in this world of change and becoming to the immutable empyrean of the Formless.
Source: S. H. Nasr, The Heart of Islam
"In any case, what Westerners call civilization, the others would call barbarity, because it is precisely lacking in the essential, that is to say, a principle of a higher order."
René Guénon, East And West, 1924
صلّى الله على سيّدنا محمّد و على آله و صحبه و سلّم
The blessings and peace of Allah on the Prophet, his Family, and his Companions, ( sallAllahu `aleihi wa sallam ) .
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