Marifot 2: Shariat (The second step on the mystical path of Islam) - Marifoter ditiyo dhap/ khaik.
Channel: Abu Zahid
Date: 2012-02-03

The second step on the mystic path of Islam according to Shaykh Abdul Qadir Al-Murabit. Shariat:

'There is no road to the realities except on the tongue of the shari'at.' said Shaykh al-Akbar.

'The shariat of Islam is the confirmation that there is no one worthy to be worshiped except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. it is also to pray five times a day, fast the thirty days of Ramadan, pay two and a half percent of your excess wealth each year [within special rules of zakat] and to make the pilgrimage to Makka if you are able. On top of this, the one who has elected to follow the shariat accepts to live within the boundaries of the Quran and the example of the Prophet Mohammed (saw)...

... Shariat implies recognition of biological laws that function at every level of existence... every society sets up a shariat (set of laws), improvised yet functional. The shariat of Islam is all mercy, while others are revealed to be cruel, repressive and narrow. Ours is from the Best of Creation..theirs is a dark shadow from lone imaginings.'

Paraphrased from 'The Hundred Steps' by Shaykh al Murabit.