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Well, let's go to another kind of word that gets thrown around a lot, especially in the political spectrum today.

And it's one that I keep hearing but honestly don't know all that much about.

So hopefully you can kind of enlighten me and you know folks who are watching and probably other folks in the room.

So Sharia law, right? It's this phrase that gets

that's thrown around is this grand threat.

That's flying, right. And so I'm kind of curious, like, first of all, what is Sharia law?

Yeah.

Is this something anyone should actually be concerned about?

Can you explain and elaborate on that a little bit?

Yeah and I'll just say this that a lot of times it's sad because we have to distance ourselves as Muslims from terms that have been abused because we don't have sufficient time to explain what those terms are.

So, you know, we're anti-Jijah, but we're not anti-Jah.

Jihad's a part of our religion. We're anti-An extremistathah. We're not anti-Jihad. We're anti-extremist version of jihad.

But no, jihad is a part of our religion.

Sharia is a part of our religion.

Sharia, the linguistic meaning of Sharia is a path that leads to water.

That's actually what Shariya means, a path that leads to water.

And it's not, it does not refer to law in the state sense alone but rather my prayer and

that's why when people when when states criminalize shariya that literally means I

can't pray anymore because my prayer is part of shari. It's part of my obeying divine

legislation, right? So sharia is divine legislation. It's not synonymous with heads

flying off and hands flying off and again crazy things that happen around the world.

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