When living in the West, we quite often find our brothers very laid back. They don’t pursue an active lifestyle. They come home from work or school (that’s if they are doing either) and don’t do much except perhaps play and enjoy the rest of their evening. Maybe they will go to the local Masjid, but that’s about it.
Then there are brothers who just don’t do anything. When you see them, you can almost see the dark cloud over them. You can see right through their personality. Justifying their lazy behavior with ‘Islamic work’ is usually what we hear. They know they are being lazy and they know that they are losing out on time that can be used for beneficial deeds.
The Muslim should never be satisfied with a life of weakness. He should constantly be searching to do more. A brother will graduate from college, finishing all those hard years and gets a job. He thinks his pursuit for knowledge and activism stops there. When I look at our Prophets and more specifically the last of them, I come across a contradiction. They were hardworking all throughout their lives, constantly finding something to do in order to benefit themselves and others. The key words? Constantly finding something to do.
