No soul can ever take the burden of other, as per the Divine’Law of Mukafat’ the law of retribution, unto all its own deed, as enshrined:
”No burdened soul can carry the burden of another. Even ifone weighted down the calls for help with its burden, nothing can be liftedfrom it, even if they were related. You are to warn those who fear their Lordinwardly, and perform the prayer. He who purifies himself purifies himself forhis own good. To God is the ultimate return” (35: 18)
According to the ‘Law of Mukafat’ no one can carry theburden of another. If one was to be heavily burdened and feeling crushed underthe burden of his misdeeds, his frantic calls to others to share it will amountto nothing. Even his relatives, however close they might be cannot help him outof his predicament.
If one were to take the wrong path, he cannot wrigglehimself out of its consequences. The consequences of misdeeds have to beunderstood and appreciated. For such an understanding and appreciation todevelop, one has to look inwards. And, herein lays the importance of prayer. Itis prayer, which brings the person unto the Divine Path, the path ofsalvation. Prayer is the nourishment ofthe soul. It is the process of self purification. Not to understand andappreciate its importance may lead one to abyss, a state with gross inabilityto tread the right path.
The two states, with and without prayer, with and withoutappreciating the inner-self, with and without the process of self purification,cannot be viewed in the same prism, or within the same parameters, asenshrined:
”Not equal are the blind and seeing, nor are the darknessand light, nor are the shade and torrid heat” (35: 19, 20, 21)
If these are not equal, as they can never ever be, then thetwo states noted above, cannot be alike.