Shadee Elmasry – Deen is supposed to be easy

26 August 2024

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The speaker advises the audience to change their focus and approach their questions by asking what Allah loves. They suggest that hardship is a concept that determines whether a person is a legitimate one or not. The audience should also consider the concept of hardship and consider whether something is a legitimate hardship or not.

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People always ask, isn't the deen supposed to

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be easy? Why are you so worried about

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ease? Why don't you worry about what's right?

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Why don't you worry about what Allah loves?

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How's that? Forget what's right and wrong. That's

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all academic.

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Change your paradigm. Change your focus.

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Take yourself out of the centrality of the

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thinking.

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Take it out and ask yourself, what does

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Allah love? What would the prophet love? The

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prophet is a human being. Right? What would

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he love? Why don't you put that there?

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In our religion, we do have a concept

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of hardship. What determines hardship? Really, the pious

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scholars will tell you if something is a

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legitimate hardship or not. But someone barely cutting

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it and barely putting an effort would not

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be the right arbitrator for that.

"I really think this is one of the greatest causes one could support"

Mufti Ismail Menk