When the two terms, Haqiqa (Divine truth), and Shari'a (Islamic Law) are used frequently by some people of understanding, they draw the attention of the critic and the one who has insight to the fact that Haqiqa belongs to the Exalted Allah, but Shari'a is made for us by the Exalted Allah. Hence, Haqiqa is to Him, and Shari'a is for us.
In spite of the fact that these two terms are frequently repeated, the deep implications in this contrast draws the attention of every man of thought.
In fact, the term Haqiqa refers to the Oneness of Allah. It is a fixed, pre-eternal, everlasting fact, that has nothing to do with the creatures. The Exalted Allah witnessed this truth when He said: "There is no god but He". The Exalted Allah's Uniqueness, and that He is the One, and that there is no other god with Him, is a pre-eternal everlasting fact that belongs to him. The testimony of the people of knowledge is derived from His testimony: "There is no god but He; that is the witness of Allah, his angels, and those endued with knowledge, standing firm on justice" (Al Imran, 18). Consequently, the testimony of the people of knowledge is dependent on that of the Exalted Allah.
On the other hand, Shari'a is a law that regulates man's conduct. It is a law that man needs, and the Exalted Allah honors humanity by it. Human beings flounder today only because they depend on a law set by the mind, but the human mind cannot encompass all the affairs of the creatures however advanced it is. The mind falls short of comprehending the notions of the universe and man. But the Creator of the universe, as well as man, guides the mind and leads it to the way of righteousness. The Exalted Allah sets for man a law for his conduct through which man's affairs become righteous. This law is called Shari'a. Thus, Shari'a is made for us.
1- Shari'a is made for us because our minds can understand it. Instead of setting their own law, our minds had better understand Shari'a. It is the Exalted Allah who sets this clear evident and just law for us, and all the sound minds are inclined to it because it enjoins justice and goodness. It enjoins giving charity to kinsfolk, and prohibits evil, abomination, and transgression.
The Great Qur'an revealed by the Exalted Allah to the heart of the Beloved, the honored (PBUH), points out to the proportionality between Shari'a and the mind. The Exalted Allah said: "Thus does Allah make clear his Signs to you; in order that you may understand" (Al Baqarah, 242).
He also said: "We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran, in order that you may learn wisdom" (Yusuf, 2).
.This is not an ethnic call to glorify race or nation. It is rather a linguistic comprehensive specialty. The Arabic language is a great container that contains, in its implications, what humanity needs with all its development and too many novelties. However much one searches in the other languages, one cannot find a larger container that can comprehend greater implications than that of the Arabic language. The more you meditate upon an Arabic expression mentioned in the Holy Qur'an, the more you find that it is so comprehensive that it can cover the need of the world through all the succession of times and changing circumstances.
The foundations upon which the Arabic language is based presents implications that have the capacity of encompassing the whole world. There is no other language that attains the same linguistic level of the Arabic language. Therefore, the Exalted Allah said: "We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran, in order that you may learn wisdom", i.e., you may find in its extensive implications meanings that cover human conduct for those who speak Arabic and those who do not.
I have formerly referred many times to the fact that learning the Arabic language is the way to understanding the Qur'an. Those who do not know the Arabic language should exert great effort in order to understand its multiple implications.
There can be no translated version of the Qur'an, because translation presents only one of its aspects. I wish there would be a developed version in any language to present to the world the multi-aspects of the Arabic verbal connotations. As for the translation and interpretation of the Qur'an, the choice today is that only one aspect of the many connotative meanings of the Qur'an is presented.
The Exalted Allah said: "We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran, in order that you may learn wisdom". Your minds can be promoted to the level of meditation, comprehension and reflection when you understand the language in which the Qur'an was revealed from The Exalted Allah to humanity. Consequently, Shari'a is made for us because our minds can understand it.
2- Shari'a is made for us because we can be guided by it. Read the following statement of the Exalted Allah: "And believe in Me; that they may walk in the right way" (Al Baqarah, 186). If human beings seek righteousness, and if they want to get out of the confusion and disorder they live in today, let them adhere to Shari'a.
Stealing has spread in the world, so do cheating, fraud, veiled lying, crookedness and deception. This is a state that has no relationship with righteousness whatsoever, because righteousness guides man to the best paths.
How great is the difference between righteousness and confusion, chaos, wantonness, stealing and plundering that humanity suffers from today!
The Exalted Allah summarizes the whole issue when He said: "And believe in Me; that they may walk in the right way"
If human beings seek righteousness, they have to understand an equation that is not so complicated. It is the Exalted Allah's statement: "Should He not know, He that created?" (Al Mulk, 14).
And: "But Allah knows, and you know not" (Al Baqarah, 216).
And: "Is then He Who creates like one that creates not?" (An Nahl,17).
3- Shari'a is made for us because the psychological lots of our souls are preserved in this Shari'a, for the Exalted Allah does not reveal this law to cut our souls from their desires. He rather sent it giving the souls their lots and what they desire. But He regulates the soul desires and put the lot of the soul to order, instead of letting the hand of the soul be stretched, left and right, to change the issue into random haphazard process.

فكانت حظوظ النفس محفوظة في الشريعة لكن على وجه مُنظَّم.
واختصر القرآن الكريم هذه المعادلة في آية عندما قال سبحانه وتعالى:
{وَمَا ظَلَمُونَا} حين ابتعدوا عن الشريعة، وحينما حاربوا الشريعة، وحينما أعلنوا أنهم ينبغي أن يكونوا في صف لا صلة له بالشريعة.

Self lots are preserved in Shari'a but in a disciplined way. The Exalted Allah summarized this equation in the holy Qur'an when He said: "They did not harm Us", that is when they got away from Shari'a, when they fought it, and when they declared that they were going to be with the side that had nothing to do with Shari'a.

{وَلَكِنْ كَانُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ} [البقرة: 57] لأن صلاح النفس لا يكون إلا بالشريعة، ولأن راحة النفس لا تكون إلا بالشريعة، ولأن سعادة النفس لا تكون إلا بالشريعة...
ورحم الله من قال: إن الذين يعادون الشمس، لا يعادونها حقًّا، لكنهم أعداء أنفسهم.
"but they harmed their own souls" (Al Baqarah, 57), because righteousness of the soul cannot be achieved but by Shari'a, and because the self-comfort cannot be attained but by Shari'a. Mercy be upon the one who said: "Those who antagonize the sun, cannot do that, for they but antagonize only themselves".
The enemy of the sun is the enemy of himself, and the one who antagonizes Shari'a is the enemy of his own interests. If only he could understand Shari'a with its harmony, with its leniency, and with its comprehensiveness, he would have known that when he antagonizes Shari'a, he harms himself and cuts what is beneficial and useful from himself.
4- Shari'a is made for us because it guides us to an enlightened way full of peace and security. It does not lead us to a dark way, nor to a confused shaken way. Read the following statement of the Exalted Allah when He summarizes the issue saying: "There hath come to you from Allah a (new) light and a perspicuous Book" to clarify for you what you are in need for.
"Wherewith Allah guides all who seek His satisfaction", i.e., those who follow what satisfies Allah and avoid what Allah prohibits, "to ways of peace and safety", so that they find peace on all levels, for financial security and peace exist only in Shari'a; so does social and political security and peace. Consequently, in Shari'a, man finds peace and safety on all the levels he needs in his life. "and leads them out of darkness, by his will, unto the light, guides them to a path that is straight" (Al Ma'idah, 15-16).
5- Shari'a is made for us because it secures good life for us: this is how the Exalted Allah defines the issue in this brief statement. Read the following statement of the Exalted Allah: "What is with you must vanish; what is with Allah will endure. And we will certainly bestow on those who patiently persevere their reward according to the best of their actions. Whoever works righteousness, man or woman, and has Faith, verily, to him will we give a new Life, a life that is good and pure, and we will bestow on such their reward according to the best of their actions" (An Nahl, 96-97). Consequently, there is good life in this world and a reward in the Hereafter for the righteous.
The child will have good life if he is directed to Shari'a, so will the youth, girls and boys, men and women, and all society.
Today, in the media, they discuss the issue of the woman's making passes at the man, and vice versa. Why does this confusion take place?


It is you who declared war against Shari'a, and it is you who said: "There is no blame and no fear if the woman meets the man while she is adorned". But, after that, you have reaped the rotten fruits, and found that raping has spread in the world. If you are acquainted with the world statistics all over the world, the world that declared war against Shari'a, you will be astonished at the high rate of raping that takes place every minute. Why does this happen?
It is because man has the illusion that his mind can set a system that organizes society, so man declares war against Shari'a. He has the illusion that he is capable, through the positive law, of reforming society.
Why does Japan demand that women should have special locomotives for them?
Why do Japanese women assemble to ask for special locomotives for them to take?
Do they choose that because they have heard about Shari'a, or it is the sound human natural disposition that makes them feel their need for that?
"But Allah will complete {the revelation of} His Light" (As Saff, 8), "Soon shall We show them Our Signs in the {furthest} regions {of the earth}" (Fussilat, 53). Everything Shari'a calls to, whether the mind comprehends it or not, is an integrated ring in a chain that reforms humanity.
Let the butters butt one another, and let the obstinate oppose one another, for day after day, the fact will be manifest to them. They will realize that those who invent a lie against Allah and say that the positive law put by man is superior to Shari'a are lying. They will be surprised to find that they have been a prey to great falsehood and lying, because they believed they are able to be superior to the knowledge of Allah. Allah forbids that any knowledge be superior to His. The Exalted Allah organizes societies, and supports them with what makes them righteous, and what guarantees their stability and tranquility.
Today, there are a lot of psychological crises among the youth, men and women. This is all the result of our prostration to the positive law, and because we believe that the positive law is superior to Shari'a. Our state will be worse and worse, day after day, and liars and slanderers on Allah, who use the means of media to spread their deception and falsity, will also increase.
In the coming days, no matter how much they try to change truth, and no matter how much they try to describe the sun as dark, the world will realize that Shari'a produces mercy, leniency, guidance, righteousness, and usefulness… .
The sixth and last matter I'd like to mention under the title Sharia is that Shari'a is made for us, and we, as human societies, demand it from Allah. Certainly, without Shari'a, we would have gone astray, and humanity would have gone on deteriorating:
6-Shari'a reorganizes equations that have been wrongly based on sensual incomings. Read the following Exalted Allah's statement as an example to make the idea clearer: "Don't marry unbelieving women {idolaters} until they believe; a slave woman who believes is better than unbelieving woman. Even though she allures you. Nor marry {your girls} to unbelievers until they believe; a man slave who believes is better than an unbeliever even though he allures you. Unbelievers do {but} beckon you to the Fire. But Allah beckons by His Grace to the Garden {of Bliss} and forgiveness, and makes His Signs clear to mankind; that they may receive admonition" (Al Baqarah, 221).
Herein, man faces a matter uncovered to him by the system of Shari''a. It is a trap whose appearance you admire, and your soul is attracted to by your instincts, but it is remote from the way of righteousness. Consequently, the Holy Qur'an draws your attention to two types of beauty, outside beauty and inside one. The inside beauty guarantees a settled life for you, whereas the outside beauty is a short transient stage.
When this sensual beauty vanishes, as we see in the West, the woman or the man becomes disregarded and worthless. It is the inward beauty that preserves the family, protects society and produces heroes.
When the Holy Qur'an talks about the mother of Muses, or Mary, the mother of Jesus, it does not refer to their female attraction, nor to their sensual fascination. It rather talks about their chastity, their sound minds, and the perfection of their inner soul.
When will the youth and society understand that Shari'a regulates man's steps in his walking to achieve what his soul and his sensual habits desire. Shari'a does not aim at making man a mere physical body. It rather aims at making man a human being. Concerning those who disbelieve, the Exalted Allah said: "They are like cattle, nay more misguided" (Al A'raf, 179).

Consequently, the inner beauty referred to by Shari'a is different from the outside beauty that the souls are attracted to.
Accordingly, the Qur'an presents to us a real image of man and his essence so that human society be regulated by means of pointing out to the fact that sensual incomings and attraction of the instincts are not enough to discipline human relationships. Perfection can be attained first of all by having inner perfection.
The notion of discrepancy in the Exalted Allah's statement: "a slave woman who believes is better than unbelieving woman", should be explained according to the context as the following: 'a woman who has ugly appearance but is a believer in the inside, is better than an unbeliever woman who is ugly in the inside, but has beautiful appearance.
The context in the Exalted Allah's statement: "a man slave who believes is better than an unbeliever even though he allure you" means that a man who is good in his interior but has ugly appearance is better than a disbeliever who has good appearance but is ugly in the inside even if you admire him, because human perfection is missing, and man should be valued only by his soul, not by his body.

If we were distinguished from the other creatures by our bodies, we would find from among the animals far more beautiful, far more powerful, and far more active than us…, but human perfection lies in the perfection of the interior, the perfection of the mind, the perfection of the heart, and the perfection of the soul … .
Read the following statement of the Exalted Allah: "When angels take the souls of those who die in sin against their souls', They are those who turn away from Shari'a and do wrong to their own souls, "they said: in what {plight} were you? they replied: weak and oppressed were we in the earth", i.e., 'the circumstances and considerations surrounding us forced us to reject Shari'a'. The Angels answered them: "They said: was not the earth of Allah spacious enough for you {to move yourselves away} from evil)? such men will find their abode in Hell, what an evil refuge. Except those who are (really) weak and oppressed men, women, and children who have no means in their power nor (a guide post) to direct their way", i.e., those whose bodies are restricted. But those who are free to go to another place are ordered, by the Exalted Allah, to get out of the environment that made them turn away from the right path and have the illusion that they were weak and oppressed.
"For these, there is hope that Allah will forgive; for Allah does blot out {sins} and forgive again and again" (An Nisa', 97-99). Consequently, in these six elements, we find that Shari'a is made by the Exalted Allah for us. It is the Divine Law that guides and leads man to the way of what is beneficial and useful for him. Those who fight and oppose Shari'a, fight their own benefit, their own life security. Moreover, they are deprived of the good life presented by the honored Shari'a which is the best system that man desires.
When we talk about Islamic law, the others should understand that the Islamic Shari'a is comprehensive, and it allows those who want to adopt other doctrines to follow the law they like.
Islamic Shari'a is the way to salvation in this life and in the Hereafter, but the Exalted Allah does not coerce anyone in this life to be obliged by it. He said: "Let him who will, believe, and let him who will, reject {it}" (Al Kahf, 29).
Consequently, the people of slandering and lying cannot protest saying: "When you demand your Shari'a to be applied, you stir the others to do the same". But we say to them: "We have a specialty that the others do not have, because we admit personal freedom in private circles, and our Islamic Figh (jurisprudence) and Shari'a fine the Muslim if he breaks a cup of wine a Christian is drinking, because we believe that drinking wine is allowed in the Christian law".
This is our Shari'a. Our Shari'a is comprehensive. But there was no such a law during the Courts of Inquisition when the Jews and the Muslims were killed, or during the Crusades Wars, when blood rose above the knees of the horses in Jerusalem.
Our Shari'a is comprehensive. If the others had this specialty, they would have the right to say whatever they like. But it is we, alone, who have this specialty. We say to you: "Our Shari'a guarantees your freedom in your religious law, and if you had this specialty, you would have the right to say whatever you like. But, it is we, alone, who own this specialty. We call those who do not embrace Islam and live in our society 'Dhimmi'.

Some believe that 'Dhimmi' is an offensive word. They are ignorant of the fact that Islam is high above this notion. In Islam 'Dhimmi' means that the non-Muslim is under the protection of Muhammad (PBUH) who said: "Whoever harms a 'Dhimmi', it is as if he harmed me", because the 'Dhimmi' is under the protection of Muhammad (PBUH).
I challenge the world to have such a system, but when will the others understand truths as they really are without turbulence or distortion?
Oh Allah…, guide us to You favorably, and make us from those who listen to wisdom and follow the best of it.
I say my words and ask Allah's forgiveness.