The Muslim world suffers a state of backwardness, and it is necessary for the religious discourse to showcase how the Shari‘ah encourages and calls for development to prove that Islam came not only for calling people to perform spiritual acts of worship. Rather, true Islam achieves balance between the affairs of this world and the Hereafter. Many Ahadith may be used to encourage this value of development, while –apparently speaking- they could be used only for deducing fiqhi rulings.
Yes, it is true that achieving a balance between the affairs of this world and the hereafter is an essential matter in Islam. A well-known hadith clarifies this: "Work for this world as if you will live forever, and work for the hereafter as if you will die tomorrow."
Unfortunately, the situation of Muslims today is not balanced, either a man who left the hereafter and worked only for the world, or a man who left the world and only worshiped.