Originally Posted by umm-sulaim

I think what sister madeenahsh was saying is that ,and pardon me if i'm wrong
we're given the rulings... what we can or can't do, but we also have our free will, that lets us do as we wish, we can either follow that what we have been given leading to a better after life in this world and the next or we can follow our desires leading to our destruction, in this world and the next....

" And they say: "We hear, and we obey: (We seek) Thy forgiveness, our Lord, and to Thee is the end of all journeys."
(baqarah last verse)