It is the truest of all rights, the foremost and the greatest, because it is due to Allah, the Most High, the Great, the Owner and Disposer of all affairs. It is the manifest right of the Sovereign, the Living, the Self-Subsisting Eternal, Who has originated the heavens and earth. He, Who has created all things and ordered them in due proportions with the utmost wisdom. It is the right of Allah, Who has created you from nothingness when you were nothing " not even mentioned. It is Allah, Who has bestowed His blessings upon you when you were in your mother"s womb enveloped in darkness by three veils with no one having access to you to provide food and constituent factors of growth and upcoming existence. He has rendered your mother"s breasts flow capaciously and has shown you the two highways of virtue and vice. He has devoted your parents to care about, and supply you with all means of survival. He has singled you out with numerous favors, reason and intellect coupled with proper aptitude to comprehend your position and utilize it properly:

"And Allah has brought you out from the wombs of your mothers while you know nothing. And He gave you hearing, sight, and hearts that you might give thanks (to Allah)." (16:78)

If He were to screen His Favor off for just a short moment you would surely be destroyed. Should He withhold His Mercy for just a blink of an eye, you would not survive. Favors of this sort bestowed upon you must entail duties on your part since the only authority that has fashioned and sustained you lies entirely in the hand of your Creator. Allah has endowed you with all these blessings for nothing; he asked his servants for neither sustenance nor food:

"...We ask not of you a provision (i.e. to give Us something: money, etc.); We provide for you. And the good end (i.e. Paradise) is for the Muttaqûn (pious and righteous persons)." (20:132)

Allah desires nothing from you save one thing, to worship Him Alone with no associate; after all, you yourself, will benefit from this orientation:

"And I (Allah) created not the jinns and humans except they should worship Me (Alone). I seek not any provision from them (i.e. provision for themselves or My creatures) nor do I ask that they should feed Me (i.e. feed themselves or My creatures). Verily, Allah is the All-Provider, Owner of Power, the Most Strong." (51:56-58)

He desires you to assimilate all meanings of servitude just as He is the Lord embodying all meanings of Lordship. He desires you to lie down in humble submission abiding by his bids and standing aloof from all prohibitions believing all his tidings that have assumed the form of favors already bestowed ceaselessly. It is, after all, shameful to show ingratitude and offer disbelief in return for Divine Blessings. If anyone condescends to you, you will surely feel ashamed to disobey him in public, let alone your Lord, Who has bestowed His Favors on you and shielded you by His Mercy:

"And whatever of blessings and good things you have, it is from Allah. Then, when harm touches you, unto Him you cry aloud for help." (16:53)

This right, which Allah has made imperative, singled out for himself, is quite easy to observe by those, whom Allah has made their way smooth since this way in itself is free of any difficulties or hardship,

Allah says:

"And strive hard in Allah"s Cause as you ought to strive (with sincerity and with all your efforts that His Name should be superior). He has chosen you (to convey His Message of Islamic Monotheism to mankind by inviting them to His Religion, Islam), and has not laid upon you in religion any hardship, it is the religion of your father Ibrahim (Abraham) (Islamic Monotheism). It is He (Allah) Who has named you Muslims both before and in this (the Qur"an), that the Messenger (Muhammad r ) may be a witness over you and you be witnesses over mankind! So perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat), give Zakat and hold fast to Allah [i.e. have confidence in Allah, and depend upon Him in all your affairs] He is your Maula (Patron, Lord, etc.), what an Excellent Maula (Patron, Lord, etc.) and what an Excellent Helper!" (22:78)

The Divine Right we are talking about is a perfect creed running along with strong Belief in Allah and good fruitful deeds, five Salat (prayers) a day to remove the stains of evil, raise you in degrees and render your hearts pure and your affairs wholesome and sound. All these worships are bound to be observed by Allah"s servants, each according to his capacity:

"So keep your duty to Allah and fear Him as much as you can..." (64:16)

The Prophet (peace be upon Him) said to "Imran bin Husain, who was ill:

"You have to observe prayer in a standing posture, if unable, then in a sitting posture and if you unable, you can do it lying on your side." (Bukhari)

Zakat (the poor-due) is a small portion of your money paid to meet the basic needs of the poor Muslims, the needy, those in debt, the wayfarer and other Muslims eligible for it.

Observing a one-month Saum (fast) every year, and even here.

"...And whoever is ill or on a journey, the same number (of days which one did not fast must be made up) from other days." (2:185)

Performing a Hajj (pilgrimage) to the Sacred House in Makkah once during one"s life span is a duty only for those who can afford it.

These are then the basics of Allah"s Rights over his servants. As for the others, like Jihad (fighting in the way of Allah), they are incumbent only on occasions. The Rights of Allah are easy to observe and well rewarding. If you cherish them wholeheartedly, you will surely experience felicity in both the present world an the Hereafter, shun the chastisement of Fire and find an easy entrance into Paradise:

"...And whoever is removed away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise, he indeed is successful. The life of this world is only the enjoyment of deception (a deceiving thing)." (3:185)