When we do have some enjoyment, movie, drinks, girlfriend, music dancing etc it gives us an almost immediate response. We feel high. We feel satisfaction, gratification and sometimes a boost of energy. But the reality is very soon we feel a down word spiral. So in order to reboot our self we need to have more, drink more movie more music and more beautiful girls to maintain ourselves on a constant high. There is no long lasting satisfaction .this satisfaction is a temporary boost a temporary enjoyment and in order to get the satisfaction again we need to consume more and more and waste money and time more and more money which we have already sold to Allah in order to get jannah.This is the reality of a person who worships his whims and desires and passion. In fact this is the fundamental basement in which the western society is based upon.
We do think what next what next? A visionless self desire fulfilling .in fact our desires is never going to be fulfilled as prophet Muhammad (sw) said “if the son of Adam was given a valley of gold he would have desired another one, the only thing that fulfills his stomach is the dust of the grave.” So a self desire worshipper will only be stopped from irrational consuming when he dies.
Then what we find as solution is completely different. And that is Islam. Islam teaches a completely different idea, to achieve the ultimate success we need to satisfy Allah (swt) , not by acquiring material possessions . Our God is not our desire or whims rather our God is Allah (swt) who knows best and only he knows best of our innate nature and tells us how to fulfill it and it gives us ultimate pleasure.
If we jerk a coca cola bottle then open the cap of it, almost whole the coke inside it comes out. Similarly if we take Islam emotionally we will feel a jerk for a limited period, we will feel that we will do everything for Islam .but some days later when our emotion will go away we will lose all our enthusiasm we had in Islam. So don’t do short term excitement like western people rather read Quran and sunnah and be conscious to keep you up steady upon Islam(the ultimate way of life).
May Allah bless us.