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Do you have children? Who do you love the most? Remember with me now his movements, his innocence, his welcoming you, and his attachment to you.
Then, imagine that this child, boy or girl... was kidnapped! Would you be at ease? Would you be able to practice your life leisurely without searching for him and striving to retrieve him? Or would he become the cause of your life? You wake up and sleep thinking about him.
Thus, when Islam becomes the cause of our lives.
We have an Islamic glory that has been kidnapped... We have a leadership role that is lost... We will not be truly faithful to the religion of Allah until this becomes our cause.
Then, our work for the religion of Allah will not be a "raising of the burden" in our spare time, just as our search for our kidnapped son will not be a raising of the burden. Instead, we will strive to retrieve him in every direction with tireless work, without fatigue or boredom. And whenever we slacken and our bodies tire, the longing for the child will drive us to rise up again and again, guided by hope.
If you knew that retrieving your child requires planning, you would plan. If it requires learning knowledge, you would learn. If it requires patience with harm, you would be patient... because you have no choice... he is your kidnapped son. If you knew that you would spend your life taking the means to retrieve him, you would not be stingy, even if you knew that you would only see him a moment before your death... the important thing is that he is not left kidnapped. It will not calm you, nor will it make you happy, nor will it allow you to put your head on the pillow on any day except the feeling that you have exhausted your capacity to take a step towards his retrieval.
Thus is the owner of the cause... and the difference between the wailing mourner and the hired mourner.
O Allah, make Islam the cause of our lives.