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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books All Solutions are with the Prophet’s Progeny Is Islam difficult so that people cannot comply with it? This is a false claim that has no basis in truth at all. Anyone who says so is ignorant and knows nothing about Islam. Or, he is biased intending to alienate people from their religion to give up its laws and rulings.

Or, he is an excessive puritan who has no regard except for the opinions of the puritan clergymen who forbid people to worship Allah in any way other than their own way and make themselves the guardians of Allah’s religion. Therefore, they regard things lawful or unlawful according to their own reasons or the only traditions that have reached them.

The first thing that comes to mind in this concern is this saying of the Messenger of Allah (S): Make it (the affairs of religion) easy and do not make it difficult! Bring good tidings and do not constrict (make people alienated) against yourselves, lest Allah constrict against you as He had done to the Children of Israel. The Prophet (S) often said before his companions: Allah has not sent me as a constrainer or obstinate, but He has sent me as a facilitating teacher.

It is well known that the Prophet (S) was not made to choose between two things, except that he chose the easier one. The Prophet (S) was not a legislator as some people think incorrectly when they read this verse of Qur’an: …and whatever the Messenger gives you, accept it, and from whatever he forbids you, abstain (from it) . Qur'an, 59:7 The commanding and forbidding of the Prophet (S) does not come from him. He only conveys what was revealed to him by his Lord.

He did not do anything except what Allah ordered him to do with not a bit more and not a bit less. Therefore, all the commands and prohibitions are from Allah the Almighty, though they are not recorded in the Holy Qur'an. Allah says about the Prophet (S): Nor does he speak out of desire. It is naught but revelation that is revealed .

Qur'an, 53:3-4 Since it is so, let us come to the Qur'an to see if Islam is so difficult that people cannot comply with it - in order to see whether this claim is true or false, so that we can be on a clear proof as to our affairs. Allah says in the Qur'an: He has chosen you and has not laid upon you a hardship in religion. Qur'an, 22:78 Allah does not want to put on you any difficulty, but He wishes to purify you and that He may complete His favor on you, so that you may be grateful.