Thumma assabeela yassarah (surah Abasa: 20)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(80:20) and then made the course of life easy for him, *13

Thummas sabeela yas-sarah

*13) That is, He created all those means and provisions in the world, which he could utilize, otherwise all the capabilities of his body and mind would have remained useless, had not the Creator provided the. means and created the possibilities on the earth to employ them. Furthermore, the Creator also gave him the opportunity to choose and adopt for himself whichever of the ways, good or evil, of gratitude or ingratitude, of obedience or disobedience, that he pleased. He opened up both the ways before him and made each way smooth and easy so that he could follow any way that he liked.