Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm
“لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا”
(Qur’ān 02:286)
‘La yukallifu Llahu nafsan illa wus’aha’
‘Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity.’ Ṣadaqa Llāhu l-‘aẓīm.
Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla says that He ﷻ does not command a person to do something they lack the strength to do; He ﷻ does not command them. This means the commands of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla are easy things to do; they are not things that cannot be done.
Mankind do a thousand times more for their own ego than what Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla commands them to do. But for the pleasure of Allāh ﷻ, to fulfill His ﷻ commands, they are too lazy. Most people do not do them.
Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has no benefit from those orders. He ﷻ commanded them for your benefit. You leave them and pursue whatever shayṭān and your ego command, exhausting yourself and leading to your destruction.
Mankind are like this. They see the goodness of Allāh ﷻ as hard. And they see badness as easy. Yet, badness never brings goodness to a person. A person who follows their ego and shayṭān is always in loss.
For Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla to end this loss, they must repent and seek forgiveness and be on the way of Allāh ﷻ by following His ﷻ commands. He ﷻ has given these commands for the benefit of mankind, for the benefit of His ﷻ servants, for the benefit of all of humanity.
Those who don’t do them say, “It’s hard, I can’t wake up for Fajr prayer. I can’t get up, and it is difficult.” When you wake up, pray it. Since it’s difficult, they don’t do that either. “I can’t pray the prayers on time, I pray them later.” They don’t do that either.
And then, without being ashamed of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, they keep saying, “I want this, I want that.” “I don’t pray, but I make tasbihāt.“ If you’re going to do tasbihāt – it’s not fard for you to make tasbihāt. What’s fard for you is to prayer.
If you want, you can do tasbihāt 24 hours a day. If you want, you can do a tasbihāt throughout your life. It doesn’t replace a single prayer. That’s wrong.
Therefore, we can easily do what Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla commanded us. Don’t follow your ego! Don’t be lazy! Never make any concessions to your ego. Even the slightest concession will make you miss the time, and you can’t replace that time.
If you say, “I’ll do it later,” there’s a later for the later. Until the day you die, you’ll be saying, “later, later,” and then suddenly life is over.
May Allāh ﷻ grant people awareness. May we succeed in doing all that Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla commands, in shā’a Llāh. Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq.
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