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In the Name of Allah, The All-Merciful and Most Merciful
The Easiness of Islam Is a Blessing
From Allah
Believers constantly live their lives according to what the
All-Merciful and Most Merciful has revealed in the Qur’an.
No matter where they are, they display a moral character that
pleases Allah and avoid any behavior that displeases Him. In
His mercy, Allah gave Islam to humanity, a religion that is
easy to follow and results in a good and contented way of life.
From the Qur’an, we can see that Islam’s requirements are ex-
tremely easy, because “Allah desires ease for you; He does
not desire difficulty for you” (Surat al-Baqara, 185).
Due to His compassion and mercy, all true religions con-
tain rules that are very easy to obey. The various attempts
made throughout history to deviate from the essence of reli-
gion and to prevent people from living according to it have
added several enforced practices and myths to it. When such
distortions become firmly established and self-generating tra-
ditions, people, either with or without their knowledge, be-
come far removed from the religious morality. One of the
most dangerous of these distorted beliefs is that it is hard to
live according to the religious morality. However, both Allah
and our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace)
state that it is very easy for believers to follow this morality.
As with everything else that exists, Allah has created hu-
man beings from nothing. With full knowledge of them, as
well as being closer to them than their jugular veins, He cre-
ated religion in such a way that it fully corresponds with each
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