Enjoying the honey from a distance

This life and dunya is like a honey pot, and the flies that are
attracted to it are us, mankind. Most of the flies dive straight into
the honey, mesmerised by its sweetness and overcome by its smell, but
they soon realise that they have gone in too deepas they begin to
drown and suffocate in the honey.
But there are some flies who stay on the rim of the honey pot,
enjoying its sweetness from a distance, just a little at a time,
because they know that there is a better place waiting for them, with
more than just honey.
So we should take what we can with caution from our time in the dunya,
enjoying some of thegood and refraining from the bad. There's nothing
wrong with enjoying a cricket match, or other sporting activities, if
it'sonly for one day and obligatory acts of worship are not left out
because of the match. After all, the Prophet (salallahu alayhi
wasallam) allowed A 'isha (radiallahu anha) to watch men play with
spears and he stood there for as long as she was watching it. So
really, nothing wrong with a few fun and games….but just as long as
we're not forgetting our true purpose in life .
(Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversionand
adornment and boasting toone another and competition inincrease of
wealth and children – like the example of a rain whose [resulting]
plant growth pleases the tillers; then it dries and you see it turned
yellow; then it becomes [scattered] debris. And in the Hereafter is
severe punishment and forgiveness from Allah and approval. And what is
the worldly life except the enjoyment of delusion.
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Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala) says:
اعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌ وَلَهْوٌ وَزِينَةٌ
وَتَفَاخُرٌ بَيْنَكُمْ وَتَكَاثُرٌ فِي الْأَمْوَالِ وَالْأَوْلَادِ ۖ
كَمَثَلِ غَيْثٍ أَعْجَبَ الْكُفَّارَ نَبَاتُهُ ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ فَتَرَاهُ
مُصْفَرًّا ثُمَّ يَكُونُ حُطَامًا ۖ وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ شَدِيدٌ
وَمَغْفِرَةٌ مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَرِضْوَانٌ ۚ وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا
إِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ
"Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and
adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of
wealth and children – like the example of a rain whose [resulting]
plant growth pleases the tillers; then it driesand you see it turned
yellow; then it becomes [scattered] debris. And in the Hereafter is
severe punishment and forgiveness from Allah and approval. And what is
the worldly life except the enjoyment of delusion. "
(Surah Al Hadid, 20)