We are living in an age, where challenges and
responsibilities of this life are surrounding us from every direction. As
rational creatures living on this planet our life should have all the
dimensions that are required for our survival, as an example: we have to improve
our spiritual life by strengthening our relationship with our creator, we have
to achieve our career goals and objectives, we have to keep strengthening our
ties of kinship, we have to stay connected with our old friends, we have to try
and make new friends and it goes on and on and on…. these and many more
responsibilities are waiting for us to be fulfilled. Truly, balancing these
affairs is key for our success. However, bringing this balance is not an easy
task. In our daily live we can encounter people who seem to have lost this
balance. You will find some people who are workaholics who carry the baggage of
their workload with themselves everywhere they go. Some are idler who don’t
want to do anything at all. Some claim to be devotees of god and don’t want to
have anything with worldly affairs. Some call themselves atheists who refuse to
accept spirituality as part of their life. All these extremes are due to the
fact that we forget to balance our daily affairs. We need to realize that while
it is important for us to have a spiritual life we also need to earn a living
and feed our family. In fact in Islam
feeding our family and spending quality time with them is also considered an
act of worship. Similarly, while working
tirelessly to excel in our professional career we also need to give time to
improve our relationship with our fellow human being and the creator of all worlds.
If we fail to bring this uniformity in our daily affairs
then we will either turn in to a religious monk who is always disconnected from
the world or a working machine who will have no aim in this world other than
satisfying his never ending greed.
