It seems in life, you are always running behind something or running away from something, as the conventional wisdom tells you that:
Every day in Africa a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better be running.
However, endless running for Dunya (degrees, jobs, business, money, …) may lead us to this:
Maybe a more balanced view of life is following the alternative wisdom of living in the moment and getting the most out of it, as ibn al-Qayyim had written in ‘Madarij as-Salikin’ (1/188):
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