Views on the implementation of Shari’a law

[Sherban Shabeel]

I have a question though. If the implementation of Shari3a is a success, how will it work for nomads? Will there be some sort of mobile courts to serve those who move their camels seasonally? Or will the herders have to come to a town to consult a court?

[Nur]

Shabeel bro.

 

I think your thoughts on AKs and spears ar half joking, but seriously speaking, Somalis like any other people have lived in peace with each other for ages except for periodic eruption of clan disputes on water holes in which times they have settled through their elders, Sheikhs or fighting.

 

Somali Nomads are not known to have applied Shariah law in their villages until recently. Sharia Law sends shock waves of discipline to would-be criminals, many times, peace is simply achieved by just announcing that Sharia Law will be applied.

 

Today, illiteracy among Nomads is far less than it has ever been, Quraan and Islamic studies and the sharia are readily accessible to some of them who live nearby town or villages with learning centers, which makes sharia arbitration on the go a viable way of keeping the peace in the vast wilderness.

 

Nur

[Nur]

Nomads

 

This is 2010, almost 20 years since the disintegration of what was known as the "Somali Republic" and the rise of the warlords, that lead to the creation of the counter-insurgency of the Somali resistance.

 

From Puntland in the far northeast to Somaliland in Northwest, to the South, Islam is being declared as the defacto law of the land, no single entity is opposing Sharia ( at least in theory) despite the intimate western courtship of leaders of Puntland and Somaliland for reasons beyond the scope of this thread.

 

The problem is no longer a secular versus Islamist agenda like in Turkey or other countries. The central problem is about Sovereignty. The Sharia law that all of the splinter governments and the AS claim to be their law, recognizes the Sovereignty of the state to belong to Allah SWT alone, the author of the Sharia Code itself.

 

One can not serve two masters, at least at the same time and place, the Sharia has Allah as the absolute Sovereign, neither Democracy nor a foreign diktat can share authority with the absolute Sovereignty of Allah SWT. Acceptance of Allah SWT implies rejection of any other authority whose diktat contradicts with Allah's Sovereign Law aka Sharia. This is the crux of the TAWHEED PRINCIPLE.

 

True Freedom for humankind can only be found through true allegiance to Allah's Sovereign rule. Any other interpretation that fails the above test is compounding the current predicament, one can not suffer for so long by alleviating his pain by succumbing to the temptation of a band-aid solution that reserves a front seat for an eternal punishment, a very unwise option.

 

Wallahu Aclam

 

 

Nur

[Polanyi]

nur, great quote from paragon:

 

 

"Whether these folks in Galgala are indeed Al-Shabaab or not, one thing is clear: they made a cardinal sin in PL's political perspective and all over Somalia's as well - they they made the mistake of mentioning Islam as their prefered system of self-governance. And that is their mistake; the term Islam is a psychological taboo in all the world".

[Haatu]

^ What is this yaa akhii? Are we gonna act like women and gossip she said, he said?

[Polanyi]

Originally posted by Haatu:

^ What is this yaa akhii? Are we gonna act like women and gossip she said, he said?

Ya Salafi, quoting became gossiping like women?

[Haatu]

^ Nah. Just want to know why we gotta practice he said she said.