The meaning of Al-Takleef (burden of duty) - FATE & DESTINY

The meaning of (Al-Takleef)

If we reach that point then we should know by now the meaning of (Takleef) and what is the choice with regards to humans. We should also know that man’s choice is according to the decree of Allah in what to do and what not to do and that it is the basics upon which we will be accounted for in the Hereafter.

But there might be some inevitable power that might interfere with man’s choice. We might be forced to do things and by that we are not free to choose the right path (Manhaj). In that case, we say that the burden of duty (Takleef) is raised and you are not accounted for what you do. That is the Fairness of Allah for He will not make you accounted for something when you are prevented to freely direct your energy to do good or evil.

For example, imagine that a man came and tied me with some chains so that I could not pray. Would I be accounted for not praying? Or would I not be accounted for it? Consider that someone came and ordered me to prostrate to someone other than Allah? Would I be accounted for that? Of course not because Allah (TWT) says:

<<Whoever disbelieved in Allah after his belief, except him who is forced thereto and whose heart is at rest with Faith.>>

Ayah 106 from Surat An-Nahl

So the force is not accounted for when Allah (SWT) gave us the choice in applying His law. He gave us the freedom to choose under the condition that we choose with our own free will. For Allah (SWT) wants us to approach Him lovingly and willingly. By that He (Jalla Jallaloh) wants us to prove the lovingness to the great essence of His Highness. So whoever did any sin unwillingly or by force is not accounted for his sin. Similarly anyone who obeys Allah by force or without his own free choice is not rewarded for the good deeds that he committed. For worship should be done to truly prove the lovingness of Allah (TWT). If there is no true love for Allah in the believer’s heart and if there is no sincere devotion to Allah, then none of our deeds will be accepted. 

For example, if a man gives some charity to get praised as the most generous and the most religious or to be called the man of righteousness, he will not be praised by Allah and will not be rewarded for his deed as he did not do it out of love to Allah but actually out of love to celebrity and to get praised by people. And if someone goes to a charity that is organized by the wife of someone in power and donates a big amount of money to get some favor done to him at work, he will not be rewarded for it because he has chosen to get an advantage in the worldly life (Al-Hayat Al-Donya) and he did not do it out of his love to Allah. Same as with whoever prays to get people to say that he is praying and whoever goes to do the Hajj procedure to be called “Hajj”, he will not be rewarded for it as he headed for celebrity and he had no true love in his heart for Allah. In that the prophet of Allah (PBUH) says:

((“All the deeds are according to one’s intention and everyone will get what he intended to do. For that who immigrated to Allah and his messenger will have his immigration to Allah and his messenger and that who immigrated for a life that he wanted or a wife that he married will have his immigration to what he wanted”.))

So ultimate freedom of using one’s mind in directing the energy created by Allah to obey or to disobey is a main condition for Account in the Hereafter. Also forcing people to do grievous sins of adultery is not accepted in Islam and Allah (TWT) says about that:

<<And force not your maids to prostitution, if they desire chastity, in order that you may make a gain in the (perishable) goods of this worldly life. But if anyone compels them (to prostitution), after such compulsion, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most merciful (to those women, i.e. He will forgive them because they have been forced to do this evil act unwillingly). >>

Ayah 33 from Surat An-Nur

And so we see that even with the grievous sins like disbelief and adultery, if it is practiced by force than there is no punishment for it. All deeds should be completed by freely choosing to use our minds to direct the energy created for us by Allah (SWT). That energy should be directed to do good deeds or to do evil deeds. That is why the Fairness of Allah (SWT) ruled that the “Takleef” should be raised from the insane whose mind is unable to direct the energy freely to good or evil. That is because the insane could not distinguish between what is useful and what is harmful. The same with the child because his mind is not yet mature enough to direct him to the scope of correct choice.

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Choice in the Law - FATE & DESTINY

Choice in the Law

So we are free to choose in applying the law of Allah, the right approach to do and not to do. That law is actually the straight path that we are accounted for in the Hereafter because the meaning of “Takleef“ is to follow that straight path and get away from what is forbidden. That is strictly to do and not to do. And man by law should not move what Allah ordered him to do to the scope of what is forbidden.  Also man by the divine law of Allah should not move what is forbidden to the scope of what should be done.  For that would be mere disobedience. For you disobey Allah’s decree if you do what He forbids you from doing and if you do not do what He orders you to do. So that is the scope of your choice, and you will be accounted for it in the Hereafter.

By that we reach the real scope of choice for man in the worldly life <AlHayat AlDonia>, or to the area that Allah (SWT) has created and within which He granted us the ultimate freedom so that choice takes place with the free will of man.

But why do we disobey the law of Allah and do what He asked us not to do? And why do we refuse doing what He orders us to do? Because Allah (Jalla Jallaloh) in that specific part made us free to choose. And if He did not make us free to choose, we would not own the power to do or not to do. For we do what conflicts with the will of Allah according to His law, from the concept that He gave us the freedom to choose. So the will of Allah to make us free to choose comes first and that is what gives us the power to choose.

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Will and Movement - FATE & DESTINY

Will and Movement

So the type of movements that we call voluntarily or mechanical movements, happen very fast and they do not deal with the human choice. Man does not tell the movement to start or to stop.

It is actually an energy that Allah (SWT) provided you with its power. No one can claim that it is an internal power or that it happens by man’s own choice. Allah (SWT) placed this energy in you, the energy to move and then he made you free to direct it.

For you can direct the energy inside you, that is created by Allah, to good or evil. You can walk to the mosque or you can walk to the bar, Allah forbids. That move you made is not of your own power, but the power of moving is from Allah and you directed that power to good or to evil.

Your hands can hold the knife to cut the food to pieces small enough for you to eat. You can also hold the same knife to kill someone with it. You did not bring the energy in your hands to do what you did, but that energy has been provided to you from Allah. You only directed that energy that is provided from Allah to the hands that are also created by Allah, to do the good or evil.

And the tongue could say the truth or it could lie, it could witness the right or it could be wrong about it. It could say a good word or an evil word, but still you do not own any internal power to make your tongue talk.  You only directed that talking energy that Allah (SWT) provided to your tongue to obey or disobey. The same with all other organs of your body, that appears to submit to your choice. That choice is actually not from within yourself, because all those organs do not move according to your choice, but it moves by the power of Allah (SWT) that He put in them and you only direct that power to the good or bad.

That is the scope of choice that Allah gave you. It is limited to directing the energy to the good or evil, and that is the responsibility that we are accounted for. It is the Amanah that man bore. Allah (SWT) wanted to create us free to choose and if it were that Allah did not create us free to choose, we would have not owned to choose anything. Yet we are only free to choose in the scope of our duty and from among the divine gifts that Allah (SWT) wanted us to enjoy in our life. For example we can choose what we like of food, drinks, clothes and other blessings. But other than that we do not have any power of choice.

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