fschmidt wrote

Muhammad was like Moses in being both a prophet and a political leader.  So of course Muhammad made laws.  But the Quran contains far fewer laws than the Torah does.  Why?  I think because God tried to emphasize principles as much as possible, and avoid laws except the few needed to guide Muhammad at the time.  If God's intention with religion is to provide a legal code, then God would have given us a legal code directly.  But in fact the opposite happened, God only decreased legal advice over time.