Can someone please help me understand Sharia?

Guys I'm having a tough time here.

So the punishment for adultery is stoning.

I'm having a hard time understanding some things...

• One of the major things in Islam, is how do we expect Allah to be merciful and forgiving if we can't be merciful and forgiving our selves? I feel as though stoning is a public thing, i.e. a group of people throw rocks at someone until they die? Is this suppose to be a quick process or a slow one? If it's a quick one then that would imply more than one person throwing stones. If it's a slow one, that that seems like a prolonged death if it's one person (executioner) throwing the stones.

I personally would not feel comfortable participating in throwing a stone at someone regardless of what they did. I can understand someone who's job is to slice peoples heads off who have committed heinous crimes, and adultery is a heinous crime. I could see someone getting their head sliced off in a quick clean fashion for adultery, but throwing rocks at someone until they die just seems barbaric and cruel to me. Why would a murderer get off with a lighter death (a quick slicing of the head) while someone who didn't even kill anyone gets stones thrown at them? Why should I be expected to participate in something like this?

• It doesn't help that nowhere in the Qu'Ran is stoning mentioned. There is a punishment of lashings for fornication which I think is completely reasonable as well. I have not found a single thing that I can disagree with in the Qu'Ran. I am 100% sure it is revelation.

What I don't understand is, why weren't these laws explained in the Qu'Ran for us. I can't think of it off the top of my head (my memory is bad,) but does the Qu'Ran perscribe punishments for murder? If it does, why would we have to rely on Hadith (which Allah did not guarantee preservation for us) on such a serious topic like throwing stones at someone? Why would the Qu'Ran not address this as well?

Please help me out brothers and sisters I really want answers... I asked Allah to help me (I was driving so I'll ask again at a better time...) but I really don't even think I would feel comfortable asking the scholars in my area about this either.

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