Shar

English Pronunciation en /ʃɑː/ RP en /ʃɑɹ/ GA en ɑː(ɹ) 1 Etymology 1 Proper noun 1 en mountain range cont/Europe Etymology 2 en ar شَرْع Q482752. en ar ش ر ع Alternative forms en Shar' en Sheri Sheri' via Ottoman Turkish Proper noun 1 en Q482752 en Islam en shari'a en 1892 Journal of the Institute of Bankers 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=XCw5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51 If A’s bill is in accordance with the Shar (religious law), and B has duly accepted it, B is responsible for the due payment to C, or, if the latter has sold it to D, he is responsible to D, and C or D has the right to claim payment from B on the day payment is due, and whether he claim payment on that day or later does not in any way invalidate his rights, and B’s responsibility does not cease till the amound be paid, without any limit to time. en 1899 Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 262 https://books.google.com/books?id=CHUXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA262 The Mollahs are the priests and leaders of the Moslems, with wellnigh boundless power through the fanaticism of the people and their privileges as judges and executors of the Shar or religious law, which constantly invades the sphere of the Urf or civil law. en 1994 Conflict of Reason and Tradition in Islam https://books.google.com/books?id=jTrYAAAAMAAJ 79 The Shar does not render a thing good by ordering it, nor bad by probibiting it. On the contrary the Shar orders the doing of a thing only because of inherent goodness in the thing, and forbid the doing of a thing because of its inherent badness. Related terms en Shar'i