The study seeks to exonerate Islam from the misconceptions, misinterpretations, and misapprehensions about Sharia laws that are based on the Quran and Sunnah. The death of Mahsa Amini during police custody, who was arrested on the suspicion of failure in wearing the ‘correct’ hijab under Sharia standards, is analyzed using the theoretical framework of biopolitics, a synthesis of religious and political discourses. Michel Foucault theorizes biopolitics as a collusion of disciplinary power, sovereign power, and biopower. The current humanist crises in Iran can be viewed as how biopolitics violates human rights and reduces people to mere social bodies instead of independent individuals. As an outcome of the political application of Sharia rules in Iran, Islamic feminists demand the abolition of Sharia laws and the reinterpretation of the Quran and Hadith to redefine gender roles in Islam. The struggle between Islamist politicians and Islamic feminists has affected the universality of Islam. The study finds that the civil disciplinary laws in Iran are formulated according to their socio-political agendas. However, Islam is a religion of peace, and it protects the fundamental rights of human beings irrespective of their social, religious, cultural and political backgrounds.

Index Terms- Hijab, Islam, Quran, Hadith, Biopolitics, Islamic Feminism, Sharia