Don’t worry if you don’t get taste in Ibadat/Worship. Aim and objective of accomplishing Ibadat/Worship is not ‘getting taste’. Aim and objective of Ibadat is to attain the Pleasure of Allah Taala. If one gets pleasure and taste in Ibadat that is additional bounty and blessing. However, if taste isn’t sensed in worship, this doesn’t entail that the worshiper’s state is deteriorating or has gone down to a lower level. Fulfilling the commandments with sincerity and patience on the premise of Sunnah is our responsibility.
Allah Taala often takes away taste in worship from us and this is how He tests whether His slave is running after taste in worship or is he really being sincere at work, i.e. fulfilling the Commands of Allah Taala(?)
Taste in worship fluctuates. Many worshipers undergo all sorts of hardship to attain taste and when they sense ‘a no-taste state’, they become ‘sick and tired’ by tasteless worships; they begin losing hope and become reluctant.
Be aware! Taste is never the objective of Ibadat. Don’t lose hope because of losing ‘taste’. We are not the slaves of ‘taste’! We are the slaves of Allah Taala. In all walks of life for a Muslim this is a challenge. Often we need to embark on a good deed but find that the mind isn’t set. We linger in view to set the mind, i.e. we make intention to perform it later just because attention is absent. But the attention, taste and other similar factors neither are the prerequisite nor the objective to accomplish the good deeds. This is now often our good deeds remain undone! Finally we forgo it. This is nothing, but a victory of shaytan (the devil) over us!
Therefore, it is necessary to workout the good deeds in time and with patience. To attain the courage and right knowledge regarding this issue (with all others) visit the Pious Ulama and do take their guidance.
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