O People, a teaching from your Lord has come to you, a healing for what is in [your] hearts, and guidance and mercy for the believers. Say to them (O Prophet), ‘In God’s grace (faḍl) and mercy (raḥma) let them rejoice: these are better than all they accumulate’ (Q. 10:57-8).
The verses above teach us that the sharīʿa of Islam is an expression of God’s mercy and grace. In this post we will look at some aspects of how this is so, so that we can better understand and appreciate the nature of the sharīʿa. As we will see, the sharīʿa is merciful in the way it deals with us, allowing us a degree of flexibility and choice in fulfilling its commands, and it also teaches us to deal with others with similar mercy and grace. Let us look first at some of the ways it teaches us the importance of acting with mercy and grace toward others, before we come back to how the sharīʿa itself acts with mercy and grace toward us, and finally concluding with a verse of the Qur’an that beautifully encapsulates both.
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