Sharīʿa

شريعةsharīʿa

Preferred translation
sacred law
Technical sense
the revealed order comprising belief, character, social rule and worship together

General Technical Meaning

Sharīʿa is the path in religion, understood as obedient commitment to servitude.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

Chapter 15 presents the sharīʿa as a comprehensive revealed order preserving theoretical and practical teachings, ethics, social rules, and worship, and links its preservation to prophecy and imamate.

Source: Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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Canonical address: /glossary/sharia/