Most of us go through life thinking we have achieved the balance that we should be trying to achieve as Muslims (referring to balance as in between Dunya and Deen), but have we really?
One of the many random pillowtalk conversations with my mum a few weeks back had me asking myself, was I really balancing my life out? Did I really do as much to learn loving my faith as much as I have been doing for my education?
The system we were brought up in (well, at least for most of my generation), is that we spend most of the hours in our day studying about Chemistry, Mathematics etc. And then after, we play sports in the evening, and continue doing homework later on at night. And we'd probably have an hour or two of Islamic Studies classes every other day which most of us end up complaining about..... And we go on to college and university thinking that, "hey, we've made it through school and well, I've passed PAFA and scored A for my Islamic Studies. So, I should be alright" Then it got to me, we could've done better than that, we could've found a better "balance". I could've learnt more about my religion, and how it really relates to our every day life
How great it'd be like if every single activity and subject (or basically just most of the things we do), we relate to Islam.
As simple as for instance, just telling facts like Ibn Muadh al-Jayyani attributed one of the law of sines;
(Which was a formula we all referred throughout our whole highschool)
Or even, learnt sports that the Prophet did as Sunnah as part of our curricular activity such as Archery which is proven to increase our strength and focus that can benefit us in so many ways nowadays (especially given the fact that I get distracted so easily heh)
And those were just merely examples...There's so much more to that
But my point is,
Could we have achieved a better "balance"? More intergrated Islamic-ally? Could we have been more inspired by these other great Muslim Leaders?
Came across this though,
http://productivemuslim.com/is-dunya-haram-for-us-heres-how-to-balance-deen-and-dunya/
