Where Is the Key to Paradise’s Door?
We must investigate our choices (like choosing among colors) so that we can decide to choose one of them. There are many obstacles to choosing a form of government, especially between governments that adopt Sharia law, and governments that obey a secular system. There are complex relationships among Sharia, Islamic, and secular governments because they share some political points and don’t share others. If governments adopt Sharia law, it doesn’t mean that they obey all Islamic law. The Quran is the main source of Sharia law, but Sharia law doesn’t embody the Quran completely because there are different ideas of how to evaluate the Quran. The Quran tells us what the major things in life are, and experts in religion deal with minor branches of life. For example, the Quran tells us that education is a holy duty for everybody, but the experts in Somalia say that education isn’t allowed for girls. People know that the sky is blue, but bats in Somalia think that the sky is black because they ignore rules in the Quran. I prefer a government that has a real system of Sharia law which in it, no law contradicts the Quran. I prefer it because it helps everyone obtain a high standard of living, and it has a God.
Such governments can provide answers to people’s questions about the economy, social issues, sexual relations, education, manners, tax…..etc. For example, the Quran says that people must make nests for birds that don’t have wings if the people have the ability to do that. This law helps poor families to improve their economic situation, but there isn’t a law like that in secular governments. Also, the former Iraqi president, in the time of Mohammed, Imam Ali created a law to help poor families through his government. Now, however, this law doesn’t work in some Sharia governments because there are different ideas in Sharia. The Sharia governments tell us that people must try to educate themselves, improving their financial situations, have proper relations between men and women, good relations with other people, give the benefits of a tax to poor families, and avoid bribery, stealing, monopolizing trade….etc. There are some rules that the Sharia has, but secular governments don’t have, like fasting and paying taxes to poor families. The Sharia governments request that people obey these things, but secular governments don’t try to do this. For example, European nations with secular governments have the AIDS disease which costs nations a lot of money, but the Sharia governments don’t spend a lot of money because sex isn’t widespread among unmarried people in the Sharia countries. This disease is a dragon that no one can slay except Sharia by banning illegal sex. The Sharia doesn’t allow people to have sex illegally, only in wedlock.
People must follow the Sharia governments because they say there is a God who has authority for all the world. God rewards good people and punishes bad people in resurrection. People must believe God so that they will be good people to take Allah’s reward in resurrection. How can people follow secular governments if they don’t have any God? Also, God shows us all aspects of life. We must believe in a God who has power to punish bad people and reward good people. For example, if a ghost kills a person and no one knows the ghost killed the person, who must punishe him? There must be a God to give humans their rights. The God is Allah. If people commit a crime, governments must punish them in life to give victims their rights and Allah punishes to give Allah’s rights in the afterlife. Allah put a lot of duties upon his people. The God has given us millions of miracles like creating the sky, people, earth, animals, stars…etc, and we must respect these miracles and keep Allah’s laws. For example, there are some angels in Sharia governments who don’t take bribe because they are afraid of Allah. They want to take the reward from their God. Also, we see some people bribes in Sharia governments, but they are not Muslim. They only pretend that they are Muslim by appearance, but in fact they aren’t. They want to trick people into showing that they are Muslim because Muslims are faithful and honest.
In conclusion, the Sharia law allows the people to work and try different activities in life like education, economy……etc. People must give up secular governments because these governments oppose laws, governments, and privileges that are based on religion. People must have a God and a religion in their life because religion is a part of their affairs in life to have a good life. Secular governments don’t contain the words God, Christianity, Jesus, Christ, Judeo-Christian, but one of them is a religion of the people. How can people have a religion if secular governments don’t have it? There are some laws in a secular constitution, but the Sharia has the same laws like tax, education…etc. The good things have been taken from Islamic countries and the Sharia such as the example of Imam Ali who has created a law about paying a tax to poor families through his government. After that, the law has been adopted by secular governments, and it has been popular. Now the law works in secular governments and some Islamic governments because the law is important to help poor families.