Ismail Kamdar – Is Islam an easy religion

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the one who call Allah rasool Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the deen a usual way you share
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			this is narrated in the psyche of Mr. Bahari, on through the great companion, Abba Herrera, Raja
Wahoo, that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, in the Dena, use of this religion is easy.
Whether you shared the dino or hardened Illa Allah, nobody makes this religion difficult upon
themselves, except that it will overpower them for so they do. So. Follow the law, walk on the go
and try your best or absolu and be optimistic about receiving a reward from your Lord was the inner
being of God what you were all here to shame the Luigia and seek Allah's help in the mornings and
the afternoons and a portion of the night.
		

			Whenever we hear of Hadith like this, or similarly, the verses in the Quran Surah Baqarah, chapter
number two, verse 185, where Allah Subhana Allah says, you read the law become more useful whether
you need to become an officer Allah wants is for you, he does not want difficulty for you. A common
question we get for many people is that these statements like your religion is easy, Allah, what's
easy for you does not match the experience of the religion, that for many people, their experience
of Islam is that it's difficult. It's hard, it's extreme. It's a it's a burden to follow. So when
they hear this hadith says that the religion is easy, they are unsure of how to understand these
		

			Hadith and apply them. So what I want to do today, Inshallah, in the first football, is to address
this doubt, right that the Quran and the Hadith stated the religion is easy, but for many people,
they experience the opposite. And I'll give about five different ways in which we can deal with that
doubt, inshallah. And in the second football, I want to give a brief explanation of this hadith that
we can apply on a practical level to our daily lives. So when people say that their religion does
not feel easy to them, that this religion seems difficult. There are so many laws, so many things
are haram, so many things are compulsory, it feels very difficult. How do we answer that? How do we
		

			respond to that? And maybe some of us might have the question in our minds ourselves. So Inshallah,
let's explore five ways in which we deal with this. The first way to deal with it is where is the
problem coming from? You see, the problem may not be with the law. The problem may be with our
expectation of religion. We live in an age of liberalism, Age of individualism, where it's all about
myself, it's all about what I want, where people are following their desires without any limits. And
so when you look around, and you see people who just do what they want, when they want, engaging
with all of their desires, doing everything that is haram. And from your perspective, it looks like
		

			they are enjoying life, it looks like they are free, it looks like they have everything they want in
this world. And when you compare that to following a set of laws, when you compare that to staying
away from the Haram, when you compare that to praying five times a day, then from that perspective,
it looks hard. It looks difficult, it feels like life is more harder for us than it is for others,
that people out there, whatever religion they may claim to follow, if they claim to follow no
religion at all, their life just seems to be to do whatever they want.
		

			And we think that they are happier, we think that they are more free, we think that they have a
better life and we feel that our religion is restricting us. So the problem is not with the
religion. The problem is what we are comparing it to we are comparing it to a lifestyle in which
there are no rules. And we think that this lifestyle is life. We think this lifestyle looks fun. We
think that this lifestyle, you know is what humans should should be aiming for. And because of this,
we have these nutrients of bawdiness Muslims who are trying to return to religion in a way that
appeals to that lifestyle. What we don't realize is how destructive this lifestyle really is. If you
		

			look at the countries which have adopted this methodology of living, where you do what you want, and
you just follow your knifes, you will find that those countries have the highest depression rate in
the history of this world. They have the highest suicide rates in the history of this world. Why? If
this lifestyle makes people
		

			happy there. Why are people from this lifestyle more depressed and more suicidal? On the other hand,
people who follow Islam, people who practice Islam, for people who live by the law of Islam, they
have inner peace, they have purpose they have meaning. They have a way to get through life without
going through these extremes of wanting to kill themselves. Why? If one lifestyle makes people
happy, and the other one like makes life difficult? Why is the one that you think is making life
happy? Why is that causing depression? And the one that you think make life difficult? Why is that
bringing in a piece, because we have the wrong perspective.
		

			Islam is a religion that's meant to civilize us, it's meant to make us the best versions of
ourselves. And when we move away from that, and we choose to be animalistic in our lifestyles, that
we want to be like the animals know many of these evils that people follow these days is over the
animal spirits, which naturally, you want to be like an animal you want to live like an animal is
that really why Allah gave us consciousness and brains and intellect, so we can bring ourselves back
down to the level of animals, though, we are supposed to be civilized beings, and the laws of Islam,
the morals of Islam, they civilize us to the best of both worlds, we become the best of creation
		

			when we follow these laws. So the first problem for those who find the religion difficult is that
you're looking at it from the wrong perspective, you are comparing Islam to not following any
religion at all. And then you think that that brings happiness, but it does not. Now, if you had to
compare Islam, to what other religions had as the laws at that time, when it was revealed, or to
what people's perception of piety and religion is, you will find Islam is a very practical and
simple religion. A lot of human beings feel that to be religious, to be pious to be practicing. You
have to give up this world you have to go live in a cave somewhere in the mountains to worship God
		

			all day. And this type of lifestyle is actually prohibited in Islam. This is a form of extremism
that Islam shuns. Islam teaches us a very practical lifestyle, a lifestyle when you get married,
when you have children, where you work, where you provide for society, where you serve your
community, when you give charity, when you're involved with the people. It's a very practical
lifestyle.
		

			So the first
		

			response to those who say that Islam is difficult, is that you are comparing it to liberalism, and
the comparison is wrong. The second response
		

			is that many of us who say Islam is difficult is because we don't want to follow any rules. The
irony of this is that when rules come from human beings, we are very quick to follow. Right? If your
boss has rules for the workplace, you don't think twice about following those rules. If your school
has rules, you don't think twice about following those rules. You obey the law because you know,
it's important to follow the rules from a person in position and authority. Why don't we give Allah
the same authority? Why don't we give Allah's laws the same authority, then when a person tells you
that in this place, you can't smoke? We listen to them, we respect them. Boy, Allah tells us, don't
		

			do this, don't do that. We always like to have difficulty. You see, we're not giving Allah the level
of authority he deserves. If we accept Allah subhanho wa Taala is the one who controls the universe,
He is the God of creation, He is the one who is most wise most just and therefore all of these laws
come from a position of wisdom and justice, then we should obey that law with even more zeal than we
obey the laws that human beings set up.
		

			So that is the second perspective, our perspective towards Allah as the law maker that we give Allah
the respect he deserves, as the law medical. Number three, is that we need to understand based upon
that Allah is Most wise Allah is Most just, therefore, every single law that Allah has revealed, is
the most just of laws and the most wisest of laws, even if we do not understand how, this is the key
point. You may not understand for every single law. Why is it the best
		

			but you have to accept Allah is Most wise Allah is Most just not for most of the laws, we can
explain it you can see why it is for our own benefit that we should abstain from alcohol, right, we
can see why it is our own benefit to fast we can see why these four are better for to give charity,
but sometimes you might not understand it. Why is it for our own benefit? You know, for example, to
stay away from, from from Xena, some young people can understand this, you can understand what's
wrong with it. Maybe as you get older and wiser and you lived your life and you see you those who
live a sinner lifestyle and how it ruins them and those who live a pure chaste lifestyle and how it
		

			benefits them. Then you begin to understand the wisdom. It may be you're too young to understand the
wisdom. It may be you don't have enough life experience to understand the wisdom. It may be the
science has yet to discover the Wisdom, what we believe whatever Allah has revealed, it was the
minute and therefore we trust Allah wisdom and we follow His law even when we do not understand
		

			One of the fitness in our time is that people only want to follow a law if they understand it. And
if they don't understand it, they reject it.
		

			This is a this is a problem of putting your ego and your knowledge on a pedestal, where you are
saying that if as well as I don't understand it can't be true.
		

			Not taking into account the fact that our knowledge is limited, our wisdom is limited. There are
things we don't know there are things we don't understand. Allah knows everything Allah is Most
twice. So trust, Allah has wisdom and the standard, every single law that Allah has revealed in the
Quran, in the Sunnah is there for our own benefit. It is for the benefit of humanity. And we see
this in the laws. You know, when you think about the laws, they really save us from ourselves. They
help us to grow into the best version of ourselves, you know, even the simplest of goals like
lowering your gaze. What a better world it would be. If people lower the case, know how much more
		

			safer women would feel in society, men over decades. Think about these laws. They know the
prohibition of Xena, and all these other kinds of deviancy that people are involved in today. How
much more stable were families before it's in our culture became the norm. When Xena culture became
the norm family got thrown out the window, divorce rates skyrocketed. People today don't even know
what a family is anymore. People don't want to get married. People don't want to have children.
People don't want to responsibility. When you see all of this happening. You understand the wisdom
of Allah prohibiting Zina and making marriage sooner and in some cases compulsory, according
		

			to the laws have wisdom. The fourth response is that sometimes you finding the religion difficult,
and this is the only response I'm giving them maybe a bit controversial, that sometimes you are
finding the religion difficult because your understanding of the religion is wrong. You see, it's
very much possible that we may have misunderstood something, or we may have a wrong understanding of
a fifth issue. Right. And sometimes when you are younger, when you are a zealot, when you want to
start practicing Islam, you go to that phase where you adopted the harshest position on every issue.
So if you have three Allamah talking about the issue, one thing it's allowed one thing, it's makuu
		

			one thing is haram, you could have the Haram opinion because you want to feel more pious than
everybody else. That when you do that for 100 different issues. Suddenly you have 100 Things haram
upon you that the majority of Muslims don't see us.
		

			So the problem isn't with the religion being difficult, it's that you made it difficult on yourself.
So if you finding sometimes in a religion is like overburdening to you and it's too difficult for
you take a step back and reanalyze your understanding of the religion. You go and study with Allah
ma study the books and see for yourself Is my understanding correct? No, like for example, some
people you know, define every small thing haram if someone can be sitting in a masjid in a shirt and
pants is always haram you must record them. Why? Study the books of study the Quran? So you find
it's not there? Are you just making it difficult for people upon yourself for no reason? And then
		

			we'll come to that in the Hadith. When you make the religion to be called upon yourself. You find it
overburdening. You find it too much. Sometimes, it's sometimes you know, we make the religion
difficult in ourselves and we think the religion is difficult, but the religion is not difficult
when you actually study the Quran and Sunnah the actual Halal and Haram as revealed by Allah
subhanho wa taala, you will find it is very practical. And many times, half of the things that we
may think is haram because either we don't like it or because our forefathers told us It's haram or
because you read in a book. It's horrible because some extremely spiritual, Newtonian is haram. You
		

			know, when you actually study the Quran and Sunnah and the bellhops. It's not. It's just one
person's opinion, to seek knowledge to clarify your opinions on these issues. And the final response
to those who say that the religion is difficult. And let's go over the four responses one more time
before we give the final response. Number one, the problem is with our perception that we are
comparing following laws to not following any laws. And that's a problem. Everybody needs laws. We
need laws to be the best version of ourselves. Number two, we are not giving Allah the authority he
deserves. That we are willing to follow laws set down by people, but we don't want to follow the
		

			laws of Allah subhanho wa taala. Number three, he said whatever Allah has revealed, it's for our own
benefit. And when you understand that and you accept that, then you will be more willing to follow
His rules. Number four, is sometimes we miss understandable, and we make it more difficult on
ourselves than it really gets. And when that happens, we need to take a step back and we study our
religion. And finally, finally, Allah knows best. Allah knows best what is meant by the word Aedes.
You see, the words have different definitions for different people. When the prophets Allah, Allah
himself said that this religion is easy, what Allah and is missing.
		

			Your mean by easy could be very different from what you mean by ease. When we think of ease, we
think of do what you want. But that's not what Allah shahada means when he says you read a lot
become unusual Allah intense ease for you. That's not what Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
meant when he said that the use of the religion is easy. The meaning of the word is to us is
different from the meaning to Allah subhanho wa Taala we need to step away from our understanding of
these words and go back to what does Allah mean what does Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
mean? And to do that we go to the books of Tafseer, the bookshop of commentarial bodies and we find
		

			the scholars explain what it is and inshallah we will discuss that with the sacred codebook what is
meant by this hadith what is is and what what does it mean by the religion is easy to behind the
Robin is that the fool salam ala mousseline was
		

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wikitable. Now have you had you had the Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, for sure only one
desire to have a Kulu
		

			Kulu but didn't Allah Allah, Allah.
		

			So this hadith that we're discussing, it's found in Satyagraha, in the second section, which is
called the chapter of faith of Imam. So it's a battle of faith, a matter of Imam. What this hadith
mentions is something we are supposed to believe in. It's part of our EMR as Muslims under the sub
chapter, right, the sub chapter so this is chapter two, sub chapter number 29. The sub chapter is
called Babu in the Drina yourself the chapter of the religion Big Easy. So in our Johari named this
chapter, in his Rahim, the chapter of the religion being easy, and in this chapter, he included only
two Hadith. One Hadith narrated in full which is the one we are going to discuss and one mentioned,
		

			by the way, indeed, chapter heading now just a small point of no joke, when Imam Al Bukhari mentions
a hadith in the chapter heading, but he doesn't mention it in full in the main text, it's because he
did not consider that hadith as authentic as the ones he mentioned in the main body, but he
considers them authentic enough to be mentioned, and also relevant to the topic. Right? So we're not
discussing that, but he's the one mentioned in the chapter heading. But it's also an important
Hadith which which basically, the prophets have always said that the most beloved part of this
religion to Allah is the easiest, the most beloved part of this religion to Allah is the easiest,
		

			that is an authentic hadith found in other books of Hadith. He magoha dimensions is by the way, his
chapter just revolves around what it is, and that's discussing here. So again, Mr. Bukhari has a
chapter called The religion is easy. And in this chapter, he has one Hadith, and that hadith is from
Abu Huraira radula one who the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in the deen a user to
religion is definitely easy when they you shot the dino a hadith Illa Allah Babu nobody makes it
difficult on themselves accepted to overpower them, but said they do work on people were optional.
So follow the law and try your best and be hopeful for reward from your Lord. What's the new bill of
		

			liberty? We're all happy we're shaving Adalja xe Allah is assistance in the mornings and the
afternoons and a portion of the Nikah. Let's break down the studies and explain it. But by But
firstly, what does Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mean when he tells us the religion is
easy, this is a point about either a point of Eman that our religion is easy. And the scholars have
broken it down into four things. There are four ways that this religion is easy, not compared to
follow it nothing compared to following other religions are ones made up perceptions of religion.
For ways that is religion is easy. Number one, it benefits. Any law of Islam you follow will benefit
		

			you. You stay away from alcohol that's for your own benefit. You stay away from Zina. That's for
your own benefit. You pray five times a day, that's for your own benefit. You fast the month of
Ramadan, just for your own benefit to religion is easy in the sense that everything you do that, in
obedience to Allah makes life easier for you. Any act of obedience to Allah will make life easier
for you. And that is the first part. The second way in which the religion is easy is that it is very
practical. It's very practical. Allah subhanaw taala does not tell us to pray 50 times a day. He's
not told us to fast the entire year. He didn't tell us to pray 100 all night long. He didn't tell us
		

			don't ever get mad in order to go and live like a monk in the mountains. It's a very practical
religion. You get married, you have children, you go to work you pray. Most one hour a day. If you
pray more, you're sooner. Right most one hour of the day goes in actual worship. Very practical. You
give charity compulsory once a year. If you can afford it, you go for Hajj once in a lifetime, if
you can afford it. Very, very practical laws. Number three to religion is easy in the sense that not
only are the laws practical, but they're flexible. They're flexible. You can't stand and pray You
said
		

			temporary you can't sit and pray you lie down and pray you can't make Who do you make diamo you
traveling you can combine your Salah you can shorten your Salah, very flexible and practical laws.
Number four, the religion pushes moderation. It pushes us towards moderation. It prohibits all forms
of extremism. And we'll come to this in the next part is where the profits was upsetting. Nobody
makes the religion difficult on themselves, except that to overpower them. What does this mean? When
you make Islam that you will be able to follow your own understanding?
		

			When you make Islam difficult, you won't be able to live up to the standards that you are setting
for yourself. So for example, we have the Hadith with three young men. They wanted to be more pious.
So one said, I'm going to pray the 100 every night for the rest of my life, I'm never going to sleep
at night. One of them say I'm going too fast every day for the rest of my life. And one of them
said, I'm never getting married, right? He's going to remain celibate for the rest of his life. The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam got angry, he said, This is not my student. This is not my
sooner I sleep and I wake up, I forgot something I don't pass other days, and I have wives. Right?
		

			So Rasulullah saw some teaches us the path of moderation. The part of what it is when you make this
really difficult on yourself, you will not be able to live up to it, you will not be able to follow
it you will experience what we call today, religious burnout. We have these cases where someone's
young, they start practicing Islam, they make Islam so, so difficult on themselves, that you know,
they don't do anything fine. They don't want to do any volume, want to get married, they don't want
to live a normal life just want to worship all day, all night. Sometimes within three or four years.
They stop practicing Islam altogether. And sometimes those will be even leave the religion. Why?
		

			Because they push themselves too hard. They set a goal, they were unrealistic, they follow the
version of the religion. That's not That's not what Allah wanted from us. And when you do that, you
end up pushing yourself away from Islam and pushing other people away from Islam as well. So in this
hadith, the prophets of Allah, Islam is warning us against extremism. When it you know, believes we
did our understanding of the law we did in our personal practice, we must not be extreme, we must be
moderate. And that's where the next part of the honeys comes in. So the rest of the bodies are four
steps for things to do to practice this religion properly. And the first one is, was said Do Now the
		

			word suddenly do it's difficult to explain? Even hajus Kalani Rahim Allah explains it as to be
moderate in your practice of the religion, to be moderate in your practice of the religion, meaning
gradually grow closer to Allah. Don't go to extremes, Don't make things difficult on yourself, that
he links it back to the previous part of the Hadith. He prophesied himself, whoever makes things
difficult on himself that he will not be able to follow it. So be moderate in your practice of the
religion be more than being moderate mean? It means for example, okay, you want to start fasting
extra, every Monday and Thursday. Not every day, every Monday does it that's module, you want to
		

			start praying more start praying your sooner so we can afford to add up to 100. This is moderate.
Don't go too extreme low, make things difficult on yourself. The next advice of Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam is work on evil. callable year means and there's different explanations given by
different scholars, but the one found in the books of hadith is to try your best. Quality means try
your best. Try your best to be Allah subhana wa try your best to pray five times a day to lower your
gaze, yield to do whatever Allah asked you to do. You're not going to be perfect. No one's going to
be perfect. But if you try your best, your LBC if you try your best for the rest, you try your best
		

			Allah forgives the rest. That's the third advice. What advice do you give yourself good news. What
good news. Again, 100 explain today says give yourself good news that Allah is going to accept my
efforts. Be optimistic that Allah going to accept your efforts. So what is the Hadith telling us
number one, be bothered in your practice of Islam. Don't go too extreme. Don't make it too difficult
on yourself and your family. When you build such a high expectations for yourself and your family.
Nobody can live up to be moderate. Try your best. Try your best to obey Allah understanding you're
going to slip up, you're going to make mistakes, things are going to go wrong, but you're going to
		

			keep trying your best. And number three, motivate yourself to keep trying your best by reminding
yourself of Allah's reward, reminding yourself in India he brings in another Hadith to explain this,
what is the Hadith that when you do a good deed Allah gives you 10 times the reward or more. When
you commit a sin ologies gives you one cent and he wipes it out if you if you repent and you and you
do good deeds. So we use this to motivate yourself to okay, I'm trying my best to be a good Muslim I
slipped up I'm going to try again. Insha Allah can accept my efforts, Allah is going to reward ALLAH
forgive my sins, and you use as a motivation to keep trying your best. Now the final part of the
		

			Hadith there are many different opinions. What it means to keep it simple. I'm just going to stick
to the opinion that I found in the book
		

			Heidi's to be strongest, where the prophesy some said seek Allah's assistance in the mornings,
afternoons a portion of the night. What does this mean? Well, the explanation I found that made the
most sense is to pray Salah five times a day, that it is one act of worship, to commit yourself to
there's going to save you from Jahannam is going to make life easy for you that's going to protect
you from extremism that's going to keep you balanced and grounded. It's praying five times a day.
How did they get this understanding what studying might seek assistance in the Quran, Allah says was
trying to be somebody was salah, seek assistance to sober and Scala so they link it to Scala. And
		

			then they look at the next part of the seek assistance in the morning, the afternoon and a portion
of the evening. The morning is Fudger the afternoon is over and after a portion of the of the
evening is Margaret and Alicia, and even 100. So the scholars say that this hadith means Be firm on
your Salah to the Hadith causes a moderation but on one thing it causes us to be firm for the rest
of our life. And that is your five daily Salah because this is what protects you this is what keeps
you grounded. This is what keeps you away from Cofer. This is what keeps you away from from losing
your mind if you are consistent one your Salah. And so we end with the advice of Rasulullah
		

			centimetres, Hadith and call upon all of us to follow this hadith and to live by this at ease to not
be extreme in your practice or understanding of the religion. Understand that this religion is
easier when you make it difficult on yourself. You will not be able to live up to it. So follow the
balance of understanding of this religion. Try your best. Give yourself motivation and optimism that
Allah will accept your actions and be consistent on your five dailies ALLAH SubhanA robic is at the
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