"I became committed yet didn't find peace" ! A phrase we say to ourselves or hear from some around us. And if you looke…

"I became committed yet didn't find peace" !

A phrase we say to ourselves or hear from some around us. And if you looked at our condition you would know that we "committed" outwardly but didn't commit to the works of the heart. And this is what brought us worry!

You may have committed to prayer, to hijab, to abandoning songs, to controlling relations between the sexes, and other things that come to mind when hearing the word "commitment".

But you didn't commit to cutting off your gaze from comparisons with others, you compare in everything, even in people's engagement with them on social media..

You didn't commit to gathering your heart upon Allah such that you don't wait for praise from people nor fear their blame as long as you're in obedience to Allah..

You didn't commit to giving priority in your consciousness to what Allah gave priority to/honoring your parents, raising your children, purifying yourself..

You didn't commit to reflecting on Allah's Book and connecting it to your life, and seeing your reality through its verses, to give this world its true size, and give Allah's enemies and their plots their true contemptible size, and give the Hereafter its true size.

You, by this definition my friend, didn't commit! So don't say: where is "the good life" promised in the Quran to the committed? Rather return to your heart and purify it and attach it to Allah..and know that (Allah does not fail His promise but most people do not know).