Dear Brother Joseph, Peace to you.
I want to ask you a question that I cannot seem to find the answer to. Is there a prescribed way that we should look at Duniya?
I have a difficult time looking at this world around me and seeing any enjoyment. I see evil things happening to people, horrible treatment to animals, etc., and just have a hard time seeing any happiness in the world around me. It is heartbreaking to me to see so many people caught up in shaitan's playground. Pursuing worldly goods and worldly happiness.
I am thankful for all that Allah subhana watala has given me. I am thankful that I have prayer and The Holy Quran for my comfort. I pray earnestly that Allah subhana watala will let me enter Jannah and spare me from hellfire.
But I do not wake up everyday with joy in my heart. I wish for the day that I wake up and and this worldly test is over, although there is that fear and wish that I desperately wish I have made it Jannah, God willing.
I have faced difficult times since my childhood, but it has always been shown to me a way to worship Allah subhana watala, even in the most difficult of times, and I am so deeply thankful to Allah subhana watala for providing me that.
I have been given so many things in life for my comfort, I have been given the opportunity to travel the world, I have many comforts in life that I can look around me and be so very thankful to Allah subhana watala that He has given. I can eat everyday, I can have air conditioner in my home, I have water to drink and to cleanse everyday. I have a home and a vehicle, I have eyes that I can look into the sky and see the beautiful creation, I can see the beautiful creation in mountains, trees, birds flying in the sky, bumblebees around beautiful flowers.
I am so very thankful for these things, as I know, not everyone has these things, but I just have no joy outside of the things I am thankful for.
So I ask you, am I wrong to have no taste for this world? Does this hinder me on my path?