And the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to his Companions concerning the incident involving the Bedouin:

“You were sent only to make things easy, not to make them difficult.”

He said to Muʿādh and Abū Mūsā:

“Make things easy, and do not make them difficult.”

He also said:

“This religion is easy, and no one overburdens himself in practicing it without being overwhelmed by it.”

He said:

“Do not impose hardship upon yourselves, lest Allah impose hardship upon you. Some people imposed hardship upon themselves, so Allah imposed hardship upon them. Those who remain of them are there in hermitages and monasteries: ‘Monasticism which they invented—we did not prescribe it for them.’”

He said:

“There is no monasticism in Islam.”

He also said:

“But I fast and refrain from fasting; I pray at night and sleep; I marry women and eat meat. Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not of me.”

He said:

“Allah loves that His concessions be accepted, just as He hates that He be disobeyed.”

It is also reported that he said:

“I was sent with the upright, accommodating faith.”

As for whether a person desires what he is commanded to do or dislikes it, revealed laws take no account of this; nor, indeed, do the commands of any rational person. Rather, a person is commanded to oppose his own whims. “Desire” is what distinguishes the people of Paradise from the people of Hell, as Allah Most High said:

“Whoever desires this fleeting life, We hasten for him therein whatever We will, for whomever We please. Then We assign Hell to him, where he will burn, condemned and banished. But whoever desires the Hereafter and strives for it as he should, while being a believer—it is they whose striving will be appreciated.”

Allah Most High also said:

“That home of the Hereafter We assign to those who desire neither supremacy on earth nor corruption.”

And Allah Most High said:

“Whoever desires the life of this world and its adornment, We shall repay them in full