How is islam simple?

This is a point of confusion for me. Can someone please tell me;
What is simple about Islam?

Thank you.

Greetings Rational,

Thank you for taking the time to answer.  I can give a few examples, but what I really want to know is what do muslims mean when they refer to the simplicity of Islam.  What exactly does this mean?  Thanks, CH

One example:
24:31  And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons, or their brothers or their brothers' sons or sisters' sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack vigour, or children who know naught of women's nakedness.

Others that come to mind:
use the left hand when going to the bathroom
but eat with your right
Now tell me, what if you are born left-handed, yet God who created you this way insists that you must eat with your right hand?
You do realize that left-handedness, and right handedness, is an inclination you are born with, as it is determined upon which side of the brain is more dominant?

Washing rituals must be done in a precise order?



Edited by Caringheart - 23 January 2013 at 2:05pm

As Salamu Alaikum wa rahmatullah

Allah swt, says in the holy Qur'an that , " Allah swt wishes to make things easy for you, not to make things difficult for you", Also does the holy Quran says , " -- and We did not place difficulty in the religion".

Islam is very simple, in the sense that it is not complicated to understand. Also are its laws easy to be followed, as they are according to our fitrah { inner nature}, so do they appeal us. Nothing is unnatural. It is a easy religion to be practised.We need to commit ourselves and our level of commitment will be tested by Allah swt. All those examples you listed get easy with the level of your commitment to practice

Bismillah

“Allah wishes to make things easy for you and not to make things difficult for you.” (Quran 2:185)

We did not place difficulty in religion - Quran : 22:78

Those two ayaat of holy Qur'an clearly teach us that Allah swt does n't burden us. It is an easy religion to be followed

Now coming to your next question - eating with left hand - Sis, acts of eating or any good work are to be done with right hand and those acts like cleaning and washing are done with left. Now, as you said you are a leftie, so sis, these acts are not obligatory. One who does n't eat with right intentionally, is not punished by Allah swt. These are sunnahs, which when followed are rewarded. But if one deliberately rejects sunnahs is a sinner. What matters is intention. When your intention is not to reject sunnah, or not to disobey Prophet {sallal lahu alayhi wasallam}, then you are not wrong.

But if you patiently train out yourselves to use your right hand, with the intention that you wish to obey Prophet, follow his sunnah, then surely you will be rewarded more than a right hand person.

Is n't Islam simple, sis :)