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The Final Stretch #07 Balancing Worship, Work And Family

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

Islam, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:08.2

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0:10.1

It's not easy to balance work, worship and family in the month of Ramadan,

0:15.6

more so in the last 10 nights of Ramadan.

0:18.5

But as human beings, we have responsibilities and we will be

0:22.0

rewarded for everything we do in terms of what we are supposed to be doing. We have

0:27.8

to get up, sometimes we have a school run, sometimes we have to go to work and we

0:33.9

may not have slept well because we had to get up for Suhur, we may not have had a rest,

0:40.3

we have to work, we are staying away from food and drink, we have to come back from work,

0:46.3

we have to pray while we're at work, we have to perhaps prepare for Iftar, we might have to go to the

0:52.3

maschid, come back, all of this take it in your

0:55.7

stride you will be rewarded for it don't overdo one and neglect the others if you have to work

1:02.8

you have to work if you have family you have to fulfill their rights and sometimes it is

1:08.4

compulsory certain things are far up on you.

1:13.0

You have to do it.

1:14.0

If you are not going to do it, who is going to do it?

1:24.6

You know, one of the most amazing things.

1:32.3

Allah Almighty always speaks about being charitable, and he always speaks about being charitable at home,

1:36.3

and then the relatives and the circle becomes bigger and bigger.

1:40.3

If you look at putting a morsel of food in the mouth of your spouse, that hadith that speaks about it, saying that that's a charity is so powerful because to put a morsel of food, you need to have the morsel of food.

1:57.6

To get that morsel of food, you need to go out and earn.

2:00.4

To earn, you need to work

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