He also said:

Section: A comprehensive discussion of conflicts between good deeds, between evil deeds, or between the two

This concerns cases in which they occur together and cannot be separated, so that the only possibilities are either to do both or to refrain from both. I have written something similar in “Principles of Governance and the Caliphate,” and on how the Sharia came to secure and perfect benefits, eliminate and reduce harms, give greater weight to the better of two goods and the worse of two evils, secure the greater of two benefits by forgoing the lesser, and avert the greater of two harms by bearing the lesser.

We say, then: Allah and His Messenger have commanded acts that are obligatory or recommended—although obligation entails recommendation and more besides—and forbidden acts that are prohibited or disliked. Religion consists in obedience to Him and His Messenger. This is religion and piety, righteousness and righteous action, the revealed law and the prescribed way, although there are distinctions between these terms.

Likewise, He has praised certain deeds, which are good deeds, and promised rewards for them; He has condemned other deeds, which are evil deeds, and threatened punishment for them; and He has qualified