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The evolution of sharia law

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first all the basics: when Muslims say they follow the "shariah" it means they follow the basic requirement of being a Muslim, a way to live.
-they pray 5 times a day
-fast in Ramadan
-pilgrimage to mecca
-give to the poor
etc.

it also includes more like legal, social, political matters

but lets look at early Islamic laws:

sharia laws has a weird evolution, these laws we have today are very different from the prophet's times. Muslims in Madina and Islamic areas wanted t to be different from the jews of medina and middle east. They had t have their own identity(way of life)


-Qadis(judges) were the exporters of Islam in the prophet's time.

-early Islam the sunna's of the umad, abu bakar and other respected individuals were also followed

-the sunna of the prophet was important but wasn't exclusive to him only in the early ages, it only became exclusive to him after a few centuries(8th century-9th century)

-hadiths(stories) about the prophet were rapidly collected 200 years after the prophet died. But here's the thing, most of the hadiths were not authentic and Muslims knew this

-this started ways of thinking, the hadiths had to be organized from authenticity(sahih hadiths to fabricated)

-imam al-shafi was the one who formed the laws mostly in the 9th century

-This is when the rational opinions of the qadis(judges) became irrelevant and were viewed negatively. The traditionalists were the ones who pushed this

-so any legal decision became based on quran and hadith without any human interference

-Madhabs(sunni school of laws) started 400 years after the prophet based on imams like al-shafi

-it was after the madhab schools that open interpretations stopped, the doors for personal interpretations was closed based on the schools of law. So people started just following the laws.

-but the evolution didnt stop, the ottomans also had input into the Islamic laws
 
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