How can we bring about a change in our lifestyles and find true happiness?

People say change takes time - Rome was not built in a day! Change doesn’t really take time. If you think about the changes in your lives, for each specific change you can see the time it took. The day before you were doing it and the next day you stopped or the day before you weren’t doing something and the next day you began. Change actually is instantaneous, what actually takes time is the decision to make that change. The process of thinking to make a change can actually go on until the grave. So what we need to do is to be committed and work on building real faith in our lives- faith based on knowledge, faith which is implemented in our actions. We have to become grateful people who are patient with the struggles of life.

To achieve faith, gratitude and patience involves us making a significant change in the course of our lives, and this is the real challenge. Are we going to seminars and reading articles to benefit and gain something which will change the course of our lives? Are we looking to really find true happiness or is this just another form of entertainment? Seminars can be entertaining, and speakers can be entertainers. After attending several such sessions, we still find no real change in ourselves, and if we continue in the same state then we are practicing what psychology calls, obsessive behavior - meaning, doing the same thing expecting different results which is also referred to as banging your head against the wall. We need to seriously ask ourselves, “When are we going to change?” and also, “Why not now?”

Are we ready to do this now? Show your commitment before Allah, that you will try to implement this knowledge in your life and make that change. It’s between you and Allah in the end. Let’s take something practical and use it to change and benefit our lives. Otherwise, we’re just wasting our time.