Get Tough

Old proverb:
اخْشَوْشِنوا؛ فإنَّ النِّعمَةَ لا تدومُ
“Toughen up, because luxury does not last forever.”

Our elders were rough & tough, because of their lifestyle.

They didn’t have a tap with hot & cold water on demand… they extracted water from a cold water-well.

Our grandmothers used to wake up before sunrise and clean the house, garden, feed the animals, milk the animals, prepare breakfast, etc. before the men woke up for Fajr.

They didn’t have alarm clocks, electricity, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cookers, heaters, cars etc.

If they needed hot water or to cook food, they had to lit a fire with wood…

As for the modern generation, modern comforts & luxuries have made us weak, fragile & vulnerable.

I realised this when the battery on my phone almost died, when I was driving to a location, using Google maps. If my battery had died, I would have been completely lost.

I’m not saying we need to make our life hard deliberately, but what I’m saying is we shouldn’t become too comfortable and too reliant on modern technology. We need to be ABLE to live a basic lifestyle… if required.