(2:110) - Goodly Commands - Quran Al-Baqarah (Talha Ghannam) #FridayReminders #QuranReflections

Goodly Commands Video: https://youtu.be/ZaVZibbK5Hs Podcast: https://anchor.fm/quranclub App: www.quranclub.org Website: www.otpok.com وَأَقِيمُواْ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَءَاتُواْ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَۚ وَمَا تُقَدِّمُواْ لِأَنفُسِكُم مِّنۡ خَيۡرٖ تَجِدُوهُ عِندَ ٱللَّهِۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بِمَا تَعۡمَلُونَ بَصِيرٞ Establish prayer, and pay zakah. Whatever good you send forth for yourselves, you will ˹certainly˺ find ˹its reward˺ with Allah. Surely Allah is All-Seeing of what you do. (2:110) &nbsp; God&rsquo;s commandments benefit us. When Allah ﷻ orders us to do something, it is because that thing will be good for us, even if we don&rsquo;t see it. God&rsquo;s rewards for doing them are His gifts on top of the benefit you already received intrinsically by performing what He commanded. Simply put; the benefit of the commandment is not just reward from God. The benefit of the commandment is within the act itself! &nbsp; In fact, scholars have described the sole purpose of Islamic Law to be precisely this! Al-Izz ibn Abd Al-Salaam, a great Egyptian scholar in the 7th century, described the essence of every ruling as being either to &ldquo;bring forth good and avert harm&rdquo;.&nbsp; &nbsp; For many, this statement may not be so self-evident; how can I benefit from following something I may disagree with or seemingly harmed by? What&apos;s interesting is Allah ﷻ implicitly addresses this through the choice of examples He chose within the verse; prayer and charity.&nbsp; Prayer is an act whose apparent &quot;benefit&quot; seems to be to Allah ﷻ alone with no obvious benefit to us.&nbsp; On the other hand, Zakah has no benefit to Allah ﷻ, yet seemingly harms us through our &quot;loss&quot; of wealth.&nbsp; <p style='mar