Abduh held that sharia must be embodied, not merely known as rules.

Evidence

That is to say, the shari¯‘a must become part of the judge’s moral and physical formation, ceasing in that context to be mere “rules”—although rules are what he deploys in his judgments. (Incidentally, I make no claims about Abduh’s “real motives”—a topic on which historians and biographers have been happy to speculate—but about what the text says.) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1200

Categorization

• DEFINE: Articulates the older conception where sharia is moral-physical formation of the judge, not just legal rules.