Alhamdulillah finally finished reading al baqarah just read the tafsir of this beautiful ayah I thought id share with everyone "God does not burden a soul beyond what it can bear. Each will enjoy the good it earns, as indeed each will suffer for the wrong." (2:286) The first part of this ayah which is ‘لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا’ (Lā Yukallifu Allāhu Nafsāan ‘Illā Wus`ahā) The word ‘تكليف’ (takleef) in Arabic means to be burdened with something and Allah says, “Allah does not burden any individual.” Allah will not burden any single person. ‘إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا’ (‘Illā Wus`ahā) except to that person’s capacity. Which actually means any trials you and I go through in life are actually custom tailored to our capability to manage them. What somebody else is going through may not be something I can handle and what I am going through may not be something they can handle. The gifts we enjoy in life and the difficulties we suffer in life, the hardships and the trials we suffer in life are actually each of them custom tailored to our own individual personalities. So Allah says He does not burden anybody more than they in particular are capable of bearing. ‘لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا’ (Lā Yukallifu Allāhu Nafsāan ‘Illā Wus`ahā). The five prayers for example, you can’t say well ‘MashAllah you pray 5 times but I can do it during Ramadan but usually it is impossible for me, I am not able to do that”. You can’t make that excuse because theyre the few of the commandments of Allah that Allah put on every nafs. Last few ayah mention sins may be easier to earn in the short term but would you pay for them in the long term? They bring about so many difficulties in what you have earned in terms of problems. The difficulties in your life, so much hardship, because of that disobedience to Allah actually don’t count as something easy. Like stealing may be easy but doing time in jail would be pretty hard, so what you did as an act of stupidity may have been really easy on you at the time but the price you paid for it made it a very difficult and bad thing that you did for yourself. And getting a job and working hard and earning money the right way may be really hard but the hardship you save yourself compared to that which you are doing is pretty easy. The alternative is pretty easy. That is the view Allah wants us to have of good deeds and bad deeds. Good deeds may require a lot more work but Allah will make them easy. And bad deeds may be much, much easier to do but you will pay the price and you will realize how much difficulty they are actually putting on you in in your life. So don’t overestimate the burden that Allah has put on you in terms of responsibilities and don’t underestimate the weight of sin. Do not underestimate or think that it is just something I do, who cares and not think about the burdens and troubles it will bring you tomorrow and especially when you and I stand in front of Allah.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:59:39 +0000
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