Alaykoum Salam Sister,
Please be careful in your understanding. The Sharia (Islamic Law) is defined by the Quran and the Sunnah (life and interpretation of the Prophet). The basic rules of the Sharia are fixed and for somes cases there is room for interpretation hence the 4 schools of jurisprudence.
Now what you are pointing at, is the practice of the people in Turkey which is not in line with the sharia. This can be true of course because people don't always practice islam 100%. Also the law enforced in Turkey is not sharia but secular law (forcefully imposed since the fall of the Ottoman Califate in 1923 at the hand of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk a secular army general). However the lack of islam does not change the fact that sharia law is always the standard for believers to follow, regardless of the political context (religious like in Saudi Arabia or secular like in Turkey) and the cultural practice of the people (like in turkey where SOME may say smoking is not haram).
In a nutshell there is no purely islamic country where the law is 100% islamic/sharia and the people practice islam at 100%. We have to strive towards that goal but earth will never be paradise unfortunately. May Allah grant us Jannah (paradise) inchallah.
Please be careful in your understanding. The Sharia (Islamic Law) is defined by the Quran and the Sunnah (life and interpretation of the Prophet). The basic rules of the Sharia are fixed and for somes cases there is room for interpretation hence the 4 schools of jurisprudence.
Now what you are pointing at, is the practice of the people in Turkey which is not in line with the sharia. This can be true of course because people don't always practice islam 100%. Also the law enforced in Turkey is not sharia but secular law (forcefully imposed since the fall of the Ottoman Califate in 1923 at the hand of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk a secular army general). However the lack of islam does not change the fact that sharia law is always the standard for believers to follow, regardless of the political context (religious like in Saudi Arabia or secular like in Turkey) and the cultural practice of the people (like in turkey where SOME may say smoking is not haram).
In a nutshell there is no purely islamic country where the law is 100% islamic/sharia and the people practice islam at 100%. We have to strive towards that goal but earth will never be paradise unfortunately. May Allah grant us Jannah (paradise) inchallah.
Sisters and Brothers!
, that if I'm in Muslim country, I would like to feel Islamic atmosphere,a dn I thought(maybe too optimistically again), that it's like this, that rules are respected everywhere. Islam is just so clear to me...But sometimes heard to understand fuly, as a previous Catholic and European woman. One more time Jazzakallah khair!
sister Aisha
