Temporary Home

Question:

Salaam Alaikum,
I am a teenager and a very devout muslim, however sometimes i get caught up in worldy things that are not significant to the hereafter. I know this is our temporary home and we live to praise Allah(swt) but how to I ignore the desires and materialistic things in life?

Thank You=)

Answer:

wa `alaykum salam,

Shaykh Hisham says, when we pray, we pray as prescribed by Allah swt in the Holy Qur’an: rabbana atina fi ‘d-dunya hasanatan wa fi ‘l-akhirati hasanatan wa qina`adhab an-nar,

{“Our Lord! Give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter, and defend us from the torment of the Fire!”} (Surat al-Baqara, 2:201)

So life is a balance, and as Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani says:

For every Muslim, Allah gave him a balanced day, eight hours for sleep, eight for work and eight hours for his family, worshipping, because spending time with family is like worshipping. So eight hours sleeping, not disco all the night; you come fajr time drunk already, you don’t pray, you don’t do anything. Eight hours work; don’t be lazy. Shaytan is teaching us to be lazy. One day you wake up, already you are 70 years of age and you don’t see anything except laziness in your face. Allah (swt) is going to question you; I gave you 24 hours, 8 hours to work, 8 to worship and 8 to sleep. Did you balance your system with that or not?

Taher Siddiqui

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