They said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should we not rely on what has been written for us?’ He replied: ‘Act, for everyone will be enabled to do that for which they were created. Whoever is among those destined for happiness will come to perform the deeds of happiness, and whoever is among those destined for wretchedness will come to perform the deeds of wretchedness.’ Then he recited:

‘As for the one who gives and fears Allah, and believes in the best reward, We will ease him toward ease.’ [Surah al-Layl 6]”

In the Sahīh, ʿImrān ibn Husayn reported: “A man said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, are the people of Paradise distinguishable from the people of the Fire?’ He replied: ‘Yes.’ The man asked: ‘Why, then, do people perform deeds?’ He replied: ‘Everyone acts according to that for which they were created, or that which they have been enabled to do.’” In another narration: “Everyone will be enabled to do that for which they were created.”

In Sahīh Muslim, Abū al-Aswad al-Du’alī reported: “ʿImrān ibn Husayn said to me: ‘Tell me about what people do today and strive to accomplish: is it something