Why Millions Feel Depressed? - Why Celebrities Commit Su*cide?
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For centuries, philosophers have been searching for an answer to one question. What is the secret of happiness? Today, we are going to look at some serious research and give some very useful tips, Inshallah. Powerful, life changing tips. The secret of happiness has always been wondered. For thousands of years, philosophers have searched for the answer to this question. Countless books, countless articles have been written. Brilliant thinkers with extraordinary intellect have written works on this subject. But ironically, most of them could not even find happiness in their own lives. So what is the formula for happiness? Is there a clear answer?
Countless claims have been put forward about the secret behind happiness. One of these claims is that happiness is directly proportional to the financial resources one possesses. The proponents of this claim think that a person is happy to the extent that he or she can afford a good health service and experiencing a lifestyle equipped with the technological luxury. Otherwise, they cannot solve their problems. They cannot find peace, they say. While this may sound good at first, this is not how it works. Of course, I know that financially, being below average standards can also cause people to lose their peace of mind.
But what I'm trying to say here is that having all the financial resources does not guarantee happiness. There are thousands of people who can be used as an example to support this claim. For instance, Whitney Houston. American singer who has the Guinness World Records as the most awarded female artist of all time. She has received two Emmy and six Grammy Awards. Both of them are prestigious awards, right? Also, her albums have been sold more than 170 million copies, who has received more than 410 awards, and she had a superb career in her field.
Strangely enough, who was at the peak of her career was found dead in her Beverly Hills suite, where she had been staying for a night before attending Grammy Award ceremony. Investigations revealed that she had died from drug abuse. Despite having all the financial resources, she wasn't satisfied, and she was seeking happiness by using drugs. Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the famous band Nirvana. Good looking, handsome guy at the peak of fame, hundreds of thousands of young women screaming his name in admiration at his concerts. There was nothing he couldn't achieve in this world. But something was missing. So one day he left a farewell letter to his wife and son.
Then he put a gun to his chest and ended his life. So these people had achieved everything in the world. It is as if they climbed to the top of Mount Everest at the peak of success. They are calling out to those of us who are trying to climb, as if they are saying, "I have come higher than you." "I have come higher than you could ever imagine. There's money, fame, property, possessions. But I see that what we should look for is something else. The missing piece of the puzzle is not here." There must be something else, some other meaning.
I remember Jim Carrey, the famous comedian, once said, "I wish everyone could be rich and famous one day and have everything that they have ever imagined, so that they realize that that's not the real answer." Strange, right? Another fundamental concept is the hedonic adaptation. What does this mean? Humans tend to adapt to both good and bad circumstances. Therefore, after a while, they return to their previous level of happiness. Because of this, after three months of moving to a higher standard of living, people get used to it, and start to feel how they felt before.
So for people who get into Harvard University, the motivation of "I got into Harvard!" only lasts for three months, and after three months this achievement starts to feel quite normal. Imagine that you have been working for years and years, and you finally earned the right to study at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. But after three months, you feel exactly the same way as before. This is what hedonic adaptation is. This kind of adaptation applies to both positive situations and negative situations. When you receive bad news, there is a significant drop between the sorrow you feel at first and the sorrow you feel three months later.
Allah has given us such a feature so that the effects of our sorrow will diminish over time and we can move on with our lives. On the other hand, what is the wisdom behind our joy returning to normal after three months? It is to enable us to look for a different purpose, or we get bored and turn our faces away from the temporary world and focus on what is eternal. Otherwise, we would become engrossed in worldly matters so much that we wouldn't even think of looking up at something else. We wouldn't think about an eternal life because of hedonic adaptation.
Even if you were Whitney Houston, Kurt Cobain, even if you are at the top in the worldly sense, after three months, it would feel normal to you. This was the reason that drove them to end their lives. At the top, where the word "more" means nothing anymore, they experience great dissatisfaction getting used to that higher life standard with hedonic adaptation, and feeling like a normal person takes away the joy of life. But of course, there are ways to get out of this paradox and break the cycle. So it's time to reveal the secret. This theory is called flow theory. Professor Mihayl Csikszentmihalyi explains this theory as follows.
When doing a task, focusing on it, diving into it, getting away from the things outside, and entering into a flow where you do not realize how time passes. This was the short explanation of it. You know, sometimes this happens to us. You spend 3 or 4 hours on a task, but that period feels like 30 minutes for you. Time passes so fast when you enter the flow. Imagine you are in your favorite class. What happens? You get into the flow and that period feels much shorter than it really is. On the contrary, in the classes we do not like, for example, for me it is the maths lesson. The lesson never ends. 40 minutes feel like two hours. Not being able to enter the flow feels like a torment.
To sum it up, Professor Mihayl says, "In your life, if you keep yourself busy with the things where you can get into the flow, you will be happy." The secret of happiness lies in following the things which take you into the flow and planning your life accordingly. However, since every individual has different choices, different tastes, and different hobbies, the activities in which a person enters the flow are also different. For some it is playing football, for some it is painting, for some it is studying astronomy. Imagine a maths class with 40 people. Time flows differently for everyone at the class.
There are people in that class who don't understand maths, and there are people who learn maths with passion. And in that state of passion, in that state of flow, your emotions and imagination move away from where you physically are. Now the hands of the clock, the flow of time works differently for you than everyone else at the class. Let's imagine the opposite. What do you feel when you can't enter the flow? It is exactly how you feel when you can't understand the maths lesson, or when you are in the company of people you don't like, or when you have to sit and nod to the conversations you don't want to have. It is as if time has stopped. It doesn't pass and it brings unhappiness with it.
I heard a saying which says, "With an enemy the desert is as small as a cup, but with a friend a pinhole is as wide as a town square." By the time you enter 22 or 23, your school life ends, and you start your career, a hustle in which you will have to work for the rest of your life. Maybe for 40 years, 50 years you are going to work. But we don't want to work for 50 years, do we? Imagine working in a job where you can't enter the flow for the rest of your life? Do you want to live a life where you wake up every morning to a day that you hate, with the traffic that you're fed up with, or where you get in the company of people you don't like with a fake smile on your face.
As Confucius said, "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." This sentence summarizes the entire flow theory concept. You might be thinking, what should I do now? Life didn't ask me where I want to work or what I want to do. I am forced to work in a job I don't like. At this point, you have two options. You can switch to a profession that you like and you keep your motivation high. Or you can set a goal that you can enter the flow in your current profession, and you provide your motivation and flow in that way. You can also find a purpose outside of your workplace. It may be a hobby, something to aim for during the hours you are not working.
Just keep in mind that having a motivating goal in mind is an important part of the flow theory. So the secret of happiness is to enter the flow. But there's a big issue that the people who came up with this theory missed. To understand this, we are going to take a look at three groups of people. First group, atheists. Those who don't believe in a Creator and think that there's nothing going to be happen after death. They believe that they will perish after all. The second group, Muslims. Muslims who believe in Allah and the Hereafter but don't live according to the values of Islam, who choose to live with harams and do not practice Islam.
The third group, they are pious, righteous Muslims who believe in Allah and the Hereafter and live according to their belief. Let's come to the first group, atheists. The fundamental belief of this group is that they believe that they won't exist after death. Therefore, entering the flow becomes a disadvantage for them. Because when they enter the flow, time passes so fast. A 70 year life will feel like 20 years. So according to their belief, an atheist who enters the flow will perish from this world after 20 years. Every moment spent in the flow will move them faster towards nothingness.
It's just like a car, going at 30 kilometers per hour towards the cliff, is now accelerating to 200 kilometers per hour. After learning this, an atheist may say, "Well, then I won't enter the flow." But in that case time would slow down, they would get bored, they would be living a boring and tiring life that will feel like 300 years. They are at a loss in any case, it's a paradox for them. As for the second group, we are dealing with a Muslim who does not fulfill the obligatory duties and cannot resist the desires of his nafs. Of course, we all have mistakes. We are human, we make mistakes, we fall and we stand up again.
The group I'm referring to here is made up of people who do not try to correct themselves, who do not care whether they sin, who do not regret, and who do not repent. The bells are ringing for this group too, because we understand from the Quran that if a person like this is not forgiven by Allah, there is painful punishment at the end of the road. Hell is not a place for which you can say, "Well, we will burn a little and eventually get out." It is not understandable that a person who cannot even hold his hand on the flame of a lighter for five seconds would take Hell so lightly. What will happen if this group enters the flow in the world?
70 years will feel like 20 years and they will reach the fire faster. Then, should they enter the flow or not? It's a dilemma that knows the brain. Finally, the third group consists of the Muslims that we all pray to be. The Muslims who are committed to obeying Allah's commands and prohibitions, who strive to earn Allah's pleasure, and who live in the halal circle and distance themselves from the harams. Muslims who fall into sin, but get up with repentance and keep on walking. When this group of people enter the flow in their lives and live a life full of joy in the halal circle, their 70 years of life would be shortened.
Instead of living 70 years in this world, they will feel like they lived for 20 years and will move on to an eternal realm so fast. Inshallah, Jannah, where sadness, sorrow will not face them. The most important thing we have understood so far is that it's not really possible to enter the flow without a great goal in mind. When you have a goal to reach, you can find the motivation to get up even if you fall on the way. So set yourself a high goal like being a good servant of Allah and walking towards the eternal realm. Otherwise, when people set temporary goals for themselves, they might lose their motivation by thinking that they will leave everything in this world.
This will throw them out of the flow. Alhamdulillah, we have a beautiful religion that keeps our motivation even at the saddest moments. Abu Hurayra (ra) narrates, Prophet (saw) said, "No calamity befalls a Muslim, but that Allah expiates some of his sins because of it, even though it were the prick he receives from a thorn." Subhanallah. You suffer, you go crazy, you say, "No one understands me." But your sufferings atone for your sins so long as you don't rebel. Brother, remember, one day your life will end and the things you did not do for the sake of Allah will be multiplied by zero and will disappear. But what you have done for Allah will pass on to the hereafter and become permanent.
There will be a means for you to go to eternal heaven. So living in the halal circle, in the circle of faith, provides the motivation to heal all heartbreaks. According to Professor Mihaly, it's not enough just to find the right occupation in which you get into the flow, because if you do the same thing at the same level of difficulty all the time, you start to get bored with it and it becomes a habit. You must move to the next difficulty level so that your brain keeps the flow going by releasing the dopamine of discovering something new. For example a game, Super Mario game you're playing. You entered the flow.
If you play the first level over and over again, you will no longer have fun and exit the flow. As you pass the levels and stages, the fun you get out of the game increases and you enter the flow again. By the way, when you increase the difficulty, be careful, the goals should not be impossible to achieve. They should be reasonable, realistic goals, otherwise failure will demotivate you. Let's open a new page in the flow theory. Entering the flow in worship, which is the most beneficial part. For a believer, being in the flow to just achieve happiness cannot be the only goal. Otherwise, the flow of time will send us into old age with a fast lived life and pointless deeds.
If you enter the flow in spirituality, if you are living a life of worship, when you reach the age of 70, you say to yourself that, Alhamdulillah, my years were spent serving the Quran. I lived to earn Allah's pleasure. I struggled to fulfill the command of my Lord. They went by so fast that I didn't realize how they passed." Alhamdulillah, it hasn't been wasted in vain. All of them will come to fruition in the Hereafter, Inshallah. I remember a man called Tavus al-Yamani, one of the great imams of the Tabi'un. For 40 years this person prayed Fajr with the same wudu he had made for the Isha prayer. In other words, he continuously worships, from Isha to Fajr.
Is it possible to do this for 40 years without entering the flow? Of course he entered the flow. You might wonder how could he worship for 10 hours a day for 40 years? Didn't he get bored? Actually, that time period is not that long because he entered the flow. It feels like 2 or 3 hours, not 10 hours. He wasn't feeling bored, but instead he spent that time feeling spiritually uplifted. By the way, Tavus al-Yamani is not the only man. There are thousands of people like Tavus al-Yamani. But then why aren't we praying like him? We even find it difficult to pray five times a day, which only takes one hour a day, right?
To explain this, let's use a phrase called "the period of perseverance in worship." When we lack the determination required to meet the threshold of perseverance in worship, we cannot cross that point and move forward. At first, you find it difficult to read two pages of the Quran in a day, but then you raise your goal and decide to read 20 pages a day. Of course, you find it difficult at first, but when you persevere with patience in worship, when you force yourself to do it for a while, you realize that you can do it easily. After that, reading two pages of the Quran, which used to be difficult for you, is no longer difficult. Yes, at this point you cross the threshold.
Just remember the first taraweeh and the last taraweeh. Was that the same? So when you raise your level of patience in worship, even if it is a bit difficult at first, it becomes normal at the end. Remember hydronic adaptation. The flow in worship is cold. Brothers, I can assure you that in 100 years there won't be a single person who remembers your name, The feet inside the shoes you are using to step on the earth right now. It won't be yours. Someone else will be using it. You will pass from above to under, under the ground. Just as a seed goes under the earth and gives birth to a new life. So too will men go under the earth and began a new life. We have to earn Paradise.
There is no other way. So today, let's add something to your life with which you can enter the flow in worship. But from now on, our theory is not called the flow theory, but rather it's the theory of flow that flows into eternity. If we enter the flow in a good way, we won't wait for 40 years to die and enter Jennah. We'll feel like 5 years because that we entered the flow. Let's say Ameen to this dua, brothers.
Countless claims have been put forward about the secret behind happiness. One of these claims is that happiness is directly proportional to the financial resources one possesses. The proponents of this claim think that a person is happy to the extent that he or she can afford a good health service and experiencing a lifestyle equipped with the technological luxury. Otherwise, they cannot solve their problems. They cannot find peace, they say. While this may sound good at first, this is not how it works. Of course, I know that financially, being below average standards can also cause people to lose their peace of mind.
But what I'm trying to say here is that having all the financial resources does not guarantee happiness. There are thousands of people who can be used as an example to support this claim. For instance, Whitney Houston. American singer who has the Guinness World Records as the most awarded female artist of all time. She has received two Emmy and six Grammy Awards. Both of them are prestigious awards, right? Also, her albums have been sold more than 170 million copies, who has received more than 410 awards, and she had a superb career in her field.
Strangely enough, who was at the peak of her career was found dead in her Beverly Hills suite, where she had been staying for a night before attending Grammy Award ceremony. Investigations revealed that she had died from drug abuse. Despite having all the financial resources, she wasn't satisfied, and she was seeking happiness by using drugs. Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the famous band Nirvana. Good looking, handsome guy at the peak of fame, hundreds of thousands of young women screaming his name in admiration at his concerts. There was nothing he couldn't achieve in this world. But something was missing. So one day he left a farewell letter to his wife and son.
Then he put a gun to his chest and ended his life. So these people had achieved everything in the world. It is as if they climbed to the top of Mount Everest at the peak of success. They are calling out to those of us who are trying to climb, as if they are saying, "I have come higher than you." "I have come higher than you could ever imagine. There's money, fame, property, possessions. But I see that what we should look for is something else. The missing piece of the puzzle is not here." There must be something else, some other meaning.
I remember Jim Carrey, the famous comedian, once said, "I wish everyone could be rich and famous one day and have everything that they have ever imagined, so that they realize that that's not the real answer." Strange, right? Another fundamental concept is the hedonic adaptation. What does this mean? Humans tend to adapt to both good and bad circumstances. Therefore, after a while, they return to their previous level of happiness. Because of this, after three months of moving to a higher standard of living, people get used to it, and start to feel how they felt before.
So for people who get into Harvard University, the motivation of "I got into Harvard!" only lasts for three months, and after three months this achievement starts to feel quite normal. Imagine that you have been working for years and years, and you finally earned the right to study at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. But after three months, you feel exactly the same way as before. This is what hedonic adaptation is. This kind of adaptation applies to both positive situations and negative situations. When you receive bad news, there is a significant drop between the sorrow you feel at first and the sorrow you feel three months later.
Allah has given us such a feature so that the effects of our sorrow will diminish over time and we can move on with our lives. On the other hand, what is the wisdom behind our joy returning to normal after three months? It is to enable us to look for a different purpose, or we get bored and turn our faces away from the temporary world and focus on what is eternal. Otherwise, we would become engrossed in worldly matters so much that we wouldn't even think of looking up at something else. We wouldn't think about an eternal life because of hedonic adaptation.
Even if you were Whitney Houston, Kurt Cobain, even if you are at the top in the worldly sense, after three months, it would feel normal to you. This was the reason that drove them to end their lives. At the top, where the word "more" means nothing anymore, they experience great dissatisfaction getting used to that higher life standard with hedonic adaptation, and feeling like a normal person takes away the joy of life. But of course, there are ways to get out of this paradox and break the cycle. So it's time to reveal the secret. This theory is called flow theory. Professor Mihayl Csikszentmihalyi explains this theory as follows.
When doing a task, focusing on it, diving into it, getting away from the things outside, and entering into a flow where you do not realize how time passes. This was the short explanation of it. You know, sometimes this happens to us. You spend 3 or 4 hours on a task, but that period feels like 30 minutes for you. Time passes so fast when you enter the flow. Imagine you are in your favorite class. What happens? You get into the flow and that period feels much shorter than it really is. On the contrary, in the classes we do not like, for example, for me it is the maths lesson. The lesson never ends. 40 minutes feel like two hours. Not being able to enter the flow feels like a torment.
To sum it up, Professor Mihayl says, "In your life, if you keep yourself busy with the things where you can get into the flow, you will be happy." The secret of happiness lies in following the things which take you into the flow and planning your life accordingly. However, since every individual has different choices, different tastes, and different hobbies, the activities in which a person enters the flow are also different. For some it is playing football, for some it is painting, for some it is studying astronomy. Imagine a maths class with 40 people. Time flows differently for everyone at the class.
There are people in that class who don't understand maths, and there are people who learn maths with passion. And in that state of passion, in that state of flow, your emotions and imagination move away from where you physically are. Now the hands of the clock, the flow of time works differently for you than everyone else at the class. Let's imagine the opposite. What do you feel when you can't enter the flow? It is exactly how you feel when you can't understand the maths lesson, or when you are in the company of people you don't like, or when you have to sit and nod to the conversations you don't want to have. It is as if time has stopped. It doesn't pass and it brings unhappiness with it.
I heard a saying which says, "With an enemy the desert is as small as a cup, but with a friend a pinhole is as wide as a town square." By the time you enter 22 or 23, your school life ends, and you start your career, a hustle in which you will have to work for the rest of your life. Maybe for 40 years, 50 years you are going to work. But we don't want to work for 50 years, do we? Imagine working in a job where you can't enter the flow for the rest of your life? Do you want to live a life where you wake up every morning to a day that you hate, with the traffic that you're fed up with, or where you get in the company of people you don't like with a fake smile on your face.
As Confucius said, "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." This sentence summarizes the entire flow theory concept. You might be thinking, what should I do now? Life didn't ask me where I want to work or what I want to do. I am forced to work in a job I don't like. At this point, you have two options. You can switch to a profession that you like and you keep your motivation high. Or you can set a goal that you can enter the flow in your current profession, and you provide your motivation and flow in that way. You can also find a purpose outside of your workplace. It may be a hobby, something to aim for during the hours you are not working.
Just keep in mind that having a motivating goal in mind is an important part of the flow theory. So the secret of happiness is to enter the flow. But there's a big issue that the people who came up with this theory missed. To understand this, we are going to take a look at three groups of people. First group, atheists. Those who don't believe in a Creator and think that there's nothing going to be happen after death. They believe that they will perish after all. The second group, Muslims. Muslims who believe in Allah and the Hereafter but don't live according to the values of Islam, who choose to live with harams and do not practice Islam.
The third group, they are pious, righteous Muslims who believe in Allah and the Hereafter and live according to their belief. Let's come to the first group, atheists. The fundamental belief of this group is that they believe that they won't exist after death. Therefore, entering the flow becomes a disadvantage for them. Because when they enter the flow, time passes so fast. A 70 year life will feel like 20 years. So according to their belief, an atheist who enters the flow will perish from this world after 20 years. Every moment spent in the flow will move them faster towards nothingness.
It's just like a car, going at 30 kilometers per hour towards the cliff, is now accelerating to 200 kilometers per hour. After learning this, an atheist may say, "Well, then I won't enter the flow." But in that case time would slow down, they would get bored, they would be living a boring and tiring life that will feel like 300 years. They are at a loss in any case, it's a paradox for them. As for the second group, we are dealing with a Muslim who does not fulfill the obligatory duties and cannot resist the desires of his nafs. Of course, we all have mistakes. We are human, we make mistakes, we fall and we stand up again.
The group I'm referring to here is made up of people who do not try to correct themselves, who do not care whether they sin, who do not regret, and who do not repent. The bells are ringing for this group too, because we understand from the Quran that if a person like this is not forgiven by Allah, there is painful punishment at the end of the road. Hell is not a place for which you can say, "Well, we will burn a little and eventually get out." It is not understandable that a person who cannot even hold his hand on the flame of a lighter for five seconds would take Hell so lightly. What will happen if this group enters the flow in the world?
70 years will feel like 20 years and they will reach the fire faster. Then, should they enter the flow or not? It's a dilemma that knows the brain. Finally, the third group consists of the Muslims that we all pray to be. The Muslims who are committed to obeying Allah's commands and prohibitions, who strive to earn Allah's pleasure, and who live in the halal circle and distance themselves from the harams. Muslims who fall into sin, but get up with repentance and keep on walking. When this group of people enter the flow in their lives and live a life full of joy in the halal circle, their 70 years of life would be shortened.
Instead of living 70 years in this world, they will feel like they lived for 20 years and will move on to an eternal realm so fast. Inshallah, Jannah, where sadness, sorrow will not face them. The most important thing we have understood so far is that it's not really possible to enter the flow without a great goal in mind. When you have a goal to reach, you can find the motivation to get up even if you fall on the way. So set yourself a high goal like being a good servant of Allah and walking towards the eternal realm. Otherwise, when people set temporary goals for themselves, they might lose their motivation by thinking that they will leave everything in this world.
This will throw them out of the flow. Alhamdulillah, we have a beautiful religion that keeps our motivation even at the saddest moments. Abu Hurayra (ra) narrates, Prophet (saw) said, "No calamity befalls a Muslim, but that Allah expiates some of his sins because of it, even though it were the prick he receives from a thorn." Subhanallah. You suffer, you go crazy, you say, "No one understands me." But your sufferings atone for your sins so long as you don't rebel. Brother, remember, one day your life will end and the things you did not do for the sake of Allah will be multiplied by zero and will disappear. But what you have done for Allah will pass on to the hereafter and become permanent.
There will be a means for you to go to eternal heaven. So living in the halal circle, in the circle of faith, provides the motivation to heal all heartbreaks. According to Professor Mihaly, it's not enough just to find the right occupation in which you get into the flow, because if you do the same thing at the same level of difficulty all the time, you start to get bored with it and it becomes a habit. You must move to the next difficulty level so that your brain keeps the flow going by releasing the dopamine of discovering something new. For example a game, Super Mario game you're playing. You entered the flow.
If you play the first level over and over again, you will no longer have fun and exit the flow. As you pass the levels and stages, the fun you get out of the game increases and you enter the flow again. By the way, when you increase the difficulty, be careful, the goals should not be impossible to achieve. They should be reasonable, realistic goals, otherwise failure will demotivate you. Let's open a new page in the flow theory. Entering the flow in worship, which is the most beneficial part. For a believer, being in the flow to just achieve happiness cannot be the only goal. Otherwise, the flow of time will send us into old age with a fast lived life and pointless deeds.
If you enter the flow in spirituality, if you are living a life of worship, when you reach the age of 70, you say to yourself that, Alhamdulillah, my years were spent serving the Quran. I lived to earn Allah's pleasure. I struggled to fulfill the command of my Lord. They went by so fast that I didn't realize how they passed." Alhamdulillah, it hasn't been wasted in vain. All of them will come to fruition in the Hereafter, Inshallah. I remember a man called Tavus al-Yamani, one of the great imams of the Tabi'un. For 40 years this person prayed Fajr with the same wudu he had made for the Isha prayer. In other words, he continuously worships, from Isha to Fajr.
Is it possible to do this for 40 years without entering the flow? Of course he entered the flow. You might wonder how could he worship for 10 hours a day for 40 years? Didn't he get bored? Actually, that time period is not that long because he entered the flow. It feels like 2 or 3 hours, not 10 hours. He wasn't feeling bored, but instead he spent that time feeling spiritually uplifted. By the way, Tavus al-Yamani is not the only man. There are thousands of people like Tavus al-Yamani. But then why aren't we praying like him? We even find it difficult to pray five times a day, which only takes one hour a day, right?
To explain this, let's use a phrase called "the period of perseverance in worship." When we lack the determination required to meet the threshold of perseverance in worship, we cannot cross that point and move forward. At first, you find it difficult to read two pages of the Quran in a day, but then you raise your goal and decide to read 20 pages a day. Of course, you find it difficult at first, but when you persevere with patience in worship, when you force yourself to do it for a while, you realize that you can do it easily. After that, reading two pages of the Quran, which used to be difficult for you, is no longer difficult. Yes, at this point you cross the threshold.
Just remember the first taraweeh and the last taraweeh. Was that the same? So when you raise your level of patience in worship, even if it is a bit difficult at first, it becomes normal at the end. Remember hydronic adaptation. The flow in worship is cold. Brothers, I can assure you that in 100 years there won't be a single person who remembers your name, The feet inside the shoes you are using to step on the earth right now. It won't be yours. Someone else will be using it. You will pass from above to under, under the ground. Just as a seed goes under the earth and gives birth to a new life. So too will men go under the earth and began a new life. We have to earn Paradise.
There is no other way. So today, let's add something to your life with which you can enter the flow in worship. But from now on, our theory is not called the flow theory, but rather it's the theory of flow that flows into eternity. If we enter the flow in a good way, we won't wait for 40 years to die and enter Jennah. We'll feel like 5 years because that we entered the flow. Let's say Ameen to this dua, brothers.