[838] The ‘load’ is God’s commandments and prohibitions. Allowing hard-pressed Believers to marry bondage women is one such manifestation of how God lightens the load of Believers (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī). The overall rule is that Allah, the All-Knowing Knows how weak humans are and: “has placed no hardship for you ˹Believers˺ in the religion”. (22: 78)