Egyptian Culture And Religion

Now to dissect this quote it is best to start in the beginning in the first sentence, it is said that even those strong rulers try to get around certain parts of Shari’ah meaning that not everyone agrees with it to a degree that a ruler would try to be sly and issue nonreligious laws to get around it. And in the last two sentences it is said that the Shari’ah have guardians, but they do not have a way to physically punish a ruler like that so instead they had a different but extremely effective method by stirring up public opinion, sometimes from a harmless level, which means simple protests to a dangerous level which means rebellion and that can sometimes for the ruler mean loss of power. So the ruler knows it is best not to push the fundamentalist who follow the Shari’ah while they may let you bend around it, they know better than to mess with the five pillars of Islam. And the best way one could summarize the previous four quotes is to note that the way religion and government plays with the role religion plays into the Egyptian culture is by keeping it in a balance state. That is the significance of the connection between religion and government. Because if one existed without the other there would be chaos which means no culture. That was one of the facts the other one is that the afterlife plays an important part in the Egyptian culture. …show more content…
Because to the Egyptians, they believed in a life after death as in to them death was just a temporary pit stop this may have been something ordinary special to the Egyptians. But to a non-Egyptian this was so much more that is seen in this here