Assalamualaykum Friend,

We hope you are doing well in both eeman and health.

This ephemeral life of ours has artful ways of crawling into our hearts and deflecting us from the truth of our existence.

The anxieties of providing for your family can consume you entirely, the approaching deadline of a project is all-encompassing, and an ongoing conflict within your family tears away a piece of your heart, little by little.

However, we cannot permit ourselves to neglect our Deen, on a count of our day-to-day worries and sorrows. To neglect your Deen is to violate yourself. There is a great deal of information on physical health, and a surplus of discussions on healthy eating and exercise.

In the chaos of living and surviving, we can easily lose track of ourselves, trying to persevere through another day and waking up the next morning (which is a daunting thought in itself).