Imām al-Shanqīṭī on Instituting Secular Laws
THERE USED TO BE among the Takfīrī Khārijites who believed that regulatory laws such as customs at borders, traffic codes and what is similar through which security and protection of benefcial interests are attained, that they are unlawful and that legislating or instituting them is disbelief and they would deliberately violate these laws. These were the ignorant followers of Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī (Isām al-Barqāwī) and their likes.
In this statement below, Shaykh al-Shanqīṭī (رحمه الله) explains the two types of law that can be legislated, that which is simply idārī (administrative, regulatory) and that which is sharʿiyy (legislative) which pertains to actual law.
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THERE USED TO BE among the Takfīrī Khārijites who believed that regulatory laws such as customs at borders, traffic codes and what is similar through which security and protection of benefcial interests are attained, that they are unlawful and that legislating or instituting them is disbelief and they would deliberately violate these laws. These were the ignorant followers of Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī (Isām al-Barqāwī) and their likes.
In this statement below, Shaykh al-Shanqīṭī (رحمه الله) explains the two types of law that can be legislated, that which is simply idārī (administrative, regulatory) and that which is sharʿiyy (legislative) which pertains to actual law.
Read more:
https://abuiyaad.com/a/shanqiti-instituting-secular-laws