Entry #1: Eye On The Prize

It's necessary for us to keep this world and the next - meaning we can't just go into a forest and worship all day, because there's no dunya or temptations involved in that. So it's about finding that balance which is probably our hardest job as Muslim-American teens. Good advice that I've gotten is that in everything you do in life, make sure the Hereafter is the biggest part of the equation - if dunya related stuff is bigger and the Hereafter is waay small, then rethink what it is you're doing. As Muslims it's our duty to keep our eyes on the prize... that is Jannat. Keep in mind that everything can be an act of worship if we keep our intentions straight.

"Our Sustainer
Let not our heart deviate now after You have guided us, But grant us blessings and mercy from Your own presence, For You are the granter of bounties without meaure" (3:8)

"O God! I seek Your protection
against knowledge that profits not
and a heart which fears not God
and a mind that is not satisfied
and aprayer thatis not answered." - from Islam The Natural Way...suppplications of the Prophet

"And keep yourself content with those who call on their Sustainer morning and evening, seeking His countenance, and let not your eyes pass beyond them, seeking the pomp and glitter of this life, nor obey any whose heart we have permitted to neglect Our remembrance, who follows his own desires, whose case has gone beyond all bounds." (18:28)