Tamara Gray – How to balance Deen & Dunya

			How am I going to live and build a
life that is balanced between that
		

			which will help me get to Jannah
and that which will help me
		

			succeed in this world, because
Allah subhanho wa Taala created us
		

			in such a way that we recognize
the need to do well in this dunya,
		

			and we need to remind ourselves
sometimes about the need to do
		

			well for the akhira.
		

			So when we're thinking about
balance, I want to be a little bit
		

			careful about that sentence,
because we don't balance between
		

			deen and Dunia in the same way we
balance between vegetables
		

			and meat. So
		

			when you're going to eat dinner,
		

			you put what you put on your
plate, chicken, curry, rice,
		

			vegetables, salad,
		

			and you know, you put one piece of
chicken, maybe two, a spoon of
		

			rice, maybe two, spoon of curry
and vegetables, maybe two.
		

			But you don't put 10 spoons of
rice,
		

			because then you can't eat your
vegetables.
		

			That's a really good way of
thinking about food, but it's not
		

			such a good way of thinking about
Islam and about deen and dunya,
		

			because they're not equal.
		

			It's not a buffet table where
we're picking and choosing. What's
		

			the main dish, what's the side
dish?
		

			Islam or deen is the table.
		

			It's the whole table,
		

			and dunya is the chicken and the
rice and the salad and the and the
		

			vegetables. So the balance is to
make sure that our table is solid
		

			and strong, so that it can not
only hold up our dunya, but can
		

			beautify it.