If we ask ourselves: what is missing in our lives today?

The answers would be many: money, time, and comfort. But the truth is that what we lack is deeper than all of that. We live today a more comfortable life than our fathers lived, but we are less at ease than them. We miss peace of mind before physical comfort, peace of heart before peace of place, and peace of conversation before abundance of speech. We now sleep on more comfortable beds, drive more luxurious cars, and accomplish our work with faster means, but all that has not given us the comfort that resided in the hearts of those who preceded us. True comfort is not in what surrounds a person, but in what settles within him; if the heart is disturbed, the world cannot give it rest, and if it finds peace in God, it feels comfort even if life is constricted.

We have lost the tranquility of the heart. But how did we lose this tranquility? When our lives became filled with what wastes time, distracts the heart, and distances it from the true life with God, where tranquility, serenity, and righteousness of life reside. Screens are no longer just draining our time; they have begun draining our hearts. They enter a person's day through the door of entertainment, then take over his hours and occupy his mind. He moves from one clip to another, from one news item to another, until he drowns in a virtual world where he lives the details of others more than he lives his own life. And with this drift, priorities recede; prayers are delayed, remembrances are forgotten, the Witr prayer is neglected, and reverence weakens, until a person stands before God with his body in prayer while his mind and heart are distracted by the effect of screens, without realizing it. And here begins the real loss. A heart accustomed to distraction finds it hard to taste serenity. That is why God Almighty said: 'Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest.' It is not just a verse to be recited, but a truth that reorganizes life. The closer a person gets to his Lord, the more his heart fills with serenity, and he realizes the true nature of this world. It is not worth wasting the short life that God has given you on what distracts your heart, drains your time, turns you away from your prayers and remembrances, and distances you from your true happiness. If the heart is upright with God, life becomes upright. Neither money creates tranquility, nor abundant entertainment grants serenity, nor screens give a person his true happiness. How much a person needs to return from the path of emptiness and wasting time to the path of tranquility and serenity. There, in closeness to God, in a reverent prayer, a present remembrance, and the Quran recited with contemplation, life regains its meaning... and hearts regain their tranquility.