Continuation of my Contentions Series

7. The modern West shows that without a Shari?a there can only be scattered hunafa?.

Keywords:

Sharia: Islamic Religious Law

Hunafa: During the Jahilliya (time of ignorance), the Hunafa’ were those that turned away from idol worship, but did not form one cohesive community. Comes from the word hanif which translates to “upright”.

My interpretation:
In today’s society we have good people scattered across the West, without any religious law binding them together. Muslims are especially crippled in regards to knowing much of their faith without the religious law in place.

Sharia binds us together to form a Muslim community, without it we are a scattered group like the Hunafa, those who uphold the truth, but remain largely silent and unable to alter our own environments for the better.

Today’s atrocities that are being witnessed in Iraq should help us realize our lowly state of affairs.

Maybe someone can offer an alternative explanation here, I feel I may be missing something.