During form 4 and 5 I had learn Islamic Shariah Education. Basically it's an exposure of "istinbat hukum" or learning how to obtain laws there are from Quran, Sunnah, Ijma', Qiyas etc on daily ibadah and some on offences. But I can only see it through the surface. And the interest to know more about why this and that never arose. The target of learning is solely to get A1 never to understand and be a better muslim.
Now that I had learn Islamic Criminal Law I have better understanding on most of the law Allah had laid down for us, humans. And I am in the opinion that we should implement such laws.
Everyone is of different views but I would say this, don't instantly say no just because the law is a divine law base on Islamic principle and do not say yes just because you are a muslim and by saying no you are acting as if you are disagreeing with Allah.
In the law itself there are many views from the four scholars themselves and also many modern views from credible authors. Which differ from one another.
I was amazed when I discovered that for instance, theft, there are elements that needs to be fulfilled before someone's hand will be cut off. The law don't simply cut off the hand of the thief say they stole pencil or ruler or something. And when we go through the elements one by one we can see that thief nowadays cannot even be liable for hudud punishment (cut-off hands).
After all of this while I thought the law is rather harsh because cutting off hand will make the thief embarrassed for his whole life! What if they mistakenly took a rubber from someone's pencil case and forget to put it back and suddenly the rubber when missing and the owner of the rubber found out and will take me to the police and asked the police to cut my hands off T_T *did I just say me?owh* But being a good muslim, I will always say yes and I'm always scared to say that I think cutting off people hands are cruel if they only steal a stupid eraser.
I am so grateful for Allah the most knowing had given me the chance to know such things. I had been learning Islamic education since standard 1 and now I realised that I don't really have the full understanding of it. Where am I standing? Why am I doing this and that? The answer is always because I want to be a good muslim and I always follow and many times disobey it because 20 years ago I've been following not appreciating. All I need to do now is dig, dig and dig deeper. Only then secrets of Allah's creation can be discovered.
Now, if I say I believe that implementing Shariah Law is good for the society I really mean it and I am satisfied that I know why I believe in that :)
P/s: no compulsion in Islam!