Three questions must remain distinct throughout this discussion:
1. When can general health and practical means be present? — Before an act, as well as during it.
2. When is the specific power through which the deed occurs? — Concurrent with it, in the account defended here.
3. What grounds reward, punishment, and the address of religious obligation? — The person’s intention, choice, and the applicable conditions of obligation.
This framework prevents two errors: equating concurrent power with sheer compulsion, and treating pre-existing sound means as proof of independent human creative power.
The next discussion examines taklīf—the addressee of a command and the conditions of responsibility—in greater detail.