بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
This seems to be a widespread issue with our ummah – that many of the Muslims are making school studies the main priority in life. When it comes to exam season parents are pulling their kids out of Qur’an/Arabic schools. They are also replacing the time for religious/Qur’anic studies at home with extra secular revision.
Not only is this an issue among some parents but also older students who forget about their religious duties all throughout the year because of studies and deadlines.
Let us truly ask ourselves, have we really made Allah our priority?
Allah says in the Qur’an:
“Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of wealth and children – like the example of a rain whose [resulting] plant growth pleases the tillers; then it dries and you see it turned yellow; then it becomes [scattered] debris. And in the Hereafter is severe punishment and forgiveness from Allah and approval. And what is the worldly life except the enjoyment of delusion.” 57:20
The world has deluded us all through its beauty. We chase what will not last and prioritise the wrong things. We want that qualification and that job so badly that many of us abandon our Deen entirely because of it. Some are even reaching the point of not fasting on exam days in Ramadan. How have we gotten that far?
The deen of Allah is not merely an obstacle that will get in the way of studies or any aspect of our lives. The deen and the Qur’an is a mercy that will as a matter of fact make everything in our lives easier.
Let us plan the dunya around our Deen, and not our Deen around the dunya.
Allah knows best