Posted by OmegaKV on
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The Wikipedia article says:

In Arabic, the term sharīʿah refers to God's immutable divine law and is contrasted with fiqh, which refers to its human scholarly interpretations

So I would say the problem is that what Muslims consider to be Sharia is in reality fiqh. No one can fully understand God's law without being God, so for any group of Muslims to say "our system of rules is the one true Sharia" is shirk.

I vaguely remember someone saying that the different schools of Islamic thought (e.g. Hanafi, Hanbali, etc) consider the other schools to be equally valid, even though an individual rule from one school may be at odds with another. I don't know how true this is.