Their energy and effort, their time and the bulk of their thought, inventiveness, and mental energy goes towards their worldly pursuits. That is the portion of their life they act upon with utmost seriousness (as it is the (apparent) source of their wealth and influence) - they allow its fluctuations, its ups and downs to weigh them down or lift their spirits and overtake their minds and hearts - and in their free time they pursue distraction with the variety and variability of the entertainment available to them. Their energy and their best behavior is invested in the domain of work, in service and submission to their business or their employers - their irritability, their lack of patience, their frustration, their hastiness, manifests in their interaction with those who should be dearest to them - their family - and hardly any trace of the graciousness and compassion of religion appears in their character.
“Shall We inform you of those who are manifest losers in their deeds…their labor is lost (trapped) in this world’s life though they imagine that they are well versed in the skill of the work their hands produce….” (Qur’an 18:103-104)
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