Tom Facchine – The Comment Section #04 – Finding Balance In The Dunya

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The speaker discusses the benefits of balancing one's life and worshiping Allah's teachings, such as finding oneself to be a part of one's DNA and keeping it alive. They also mention the importance of balancing work and personal life, as it is crucial for one's success. The speaker emphasizes the need to avoid regret and avoid getting into negative arguments.

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			A lot of people want to know how they can balance their lives when it comes to worshiping Allah
Spano Tata. And then you have your school you have your work, you have your relationships and your
hobbies and these sorts of things. And the answer is perhaps easier than it seems. Don't think of
them as separate spheres. Don't think of them as opposing each other. If you're able to have an
intention that everything that you do is part of your DNA. And as part of your religious practice,
then you're winning. That's what winning looks like. That's how you quote unquote, balance it, then
there's nothing to balance right. So you go to school and you say Bismillah and go into school is
		
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			something that you're doing to please Allah. And then if you are actually able to keep with you the
realization that you're doing it for a while, you're not going to do not going to pollute it or
taint it with any sort of, you know, things that would make a lot unhappy with you or displeased a
lot. Right? You're going to do it in the best way. The same thing with your work. Same thing with
your relationships, your marriage, your kids, your hobbies, you know, I used to get sad you know, I
back when we were in Medina, we used to play basketball, the American students and the Canadian
students. We play basketball every Thursday night and after a while I stopped going because even
		
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			students in Medina, they'd get into horrible arguments. You found me? No, you didn't found me.
People start swearing by Allah. Allah didn't value like guy's serious, right? It was as if people
had forgotten why we're there in the first place. They had made a distinction between playing
basketball and worshiping a lot. If you're playing basketball and you're worshiping a lot through
playing basketball, then you're not going to get sucked down into those sorts of things. Right? So
there's no distinction, erase the distinction, make everything that you do for a lot and there won't
be anything to bounce