Obligation within capacity

Sha'rawi reads the close of al-Baqara 286 as showing that God imposes only what lies within capacity. Obligation falls between what is beyond ability, what needs effort, and what lies within capacity ¹.

He notes that the law lightens the burden for the traveller and the sick: the traveller may break the fast and shorten the prayer, and God lightened the fighting ratio in al-Anfal ².

He holds that the verb for good is "kasaba", because it is natural, and the verb for evil is "iktasaba", because it needs effort. The greatest harm, he says, is that evil becomes habit without effort ^{3 4}.

He reports that God answered the believers' prayer not to be burdened beyond endurance, and cites a hadith (Muslim, footnote) that God lifts error and forgetfulness from the community ^{5 6}.

The distinction between kasaba and iktasaba is Sha'rawi's grammatical reading, not checked against lexicons or tafsir. The academic view and any non-Sunni view have not been checked.