QUOTE(DemaChanRas)
As Salaamu Alaikum,
(i havent read all of the post)
Well first I would like to say there is no country that actually implements Shariah law. Yes there are some countries, like Saudi Arabia, who claim they have Shariah law... but they really dont.
Assalamu Alikum
I really don't want to start an argument about this subject, but I felt that I really had to speak out against this, since our respected scholars have done before and still do.
I am referring specifically to Saudi Arabia, not the other countries.
I have heard scholars, like 'Uthaimeen (rahimahullah), speaking against people who go against KSA, claiming that it does not implement the sharia. you must be living or experienced living in KSA to find out about the real situation. I don't blame you at all if you said this, because i know lots of rumors are spread about KSA.
My point is I have experienced living in the west for 12 years, and when I came to KSA (just recently) I saw the HUGE difference between living here and the west.
while I dont claim that KSA is perfect in its implementation of the sharia, they at least have taken this as their code of law, and try to implement some of it. except for in the time of the Prophet (saw) and the righteous Khulafaa, there was NO islamic nation that implemented the sharia perfectly. so we are not looking for perfection, because we will never get.
we are looking at a country that has the lowest drug consumption in the world. why? because they apply the death penalty to every drug dealer.
we are looking at a country where women are covered outside, and you don't have to see people with almost no clothes.
we are looking at a country where every murderer is sentenced to death (unless the family of the murdered forgives).
we are looking at a country where the sale of alcohol and indecent magazines is prohibited. even if a plane is on top of KSA territory and did not land yet, they must immediately stop serving alcohol and giving out indecent magazines.
I will not go on. but i have a message to all my sisters who are considering coming to KSA. Make Istikhara and go for it
I hope I didn't offend anyone, as that was not my intention. please forgive me.
salam
Mariam