I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at. " Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.
We live in the age of Noah (a. s. ) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a. s. ) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.