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Bringing About Happiness

Happiness cannot be purchased with gold and silver. It is far more precious than that. Happiness is like a pearl in the depths of the sea. Only the most expert diver who knows how to seek it out will find it. Happiness is a good meeting, a nice word, a dream, a realistic yet positive attitude towards life. Look into yourself. Somewhere in the depths of your own soul lies your happiness.

Let us ask what is meant by happiness. A poll was conducted where 16,000 people had to answer what happiness meant to them. Thirty-eight percent of the respondents said that happiness is brought about by love. Twenty-eight percent said that happiness is contentment. Seventeen percent said that happiness is health. Seven percent claimed that happiness is to be found in marriage. Five percent responded that happiness is wealth. Three percent said that happiness is brought about through children. Two percent replied that travel brings them happiness.

The Arab writer, `Abbâs Mahmûd al-`Uqqâd once mentioned that he had an artist friend who liked to imagine things and depict them in drawings. One day, he imagined happiness and drew it as a twenty-year-old girl skipping about in a lively and energetic manner, her hair flying to the right and left, in extreme joy and playfulness.

When the artist showed it to `Abbâs, the writer said: This is not how I imagine happiness to be. Firstly, what you have depicted might have been described as play, amusement, or enjoyment. Happiness is something else entirely. Happiness is closer in meaning to experience and knowledge than it is to thoughtlessness, adolescence, and ignorance. It is closer to a more advanced age than it is to that age which is full of the delights of youth, vigor, and strength. Secondly, happiness is closely connected to meanings like contentment, tranquility, and sobriety. It is not expressed as riotous and noisy behavior. Happiness is a matter of taste, emotion, and perception within a person – within his heart and his inner self.

Happiness cannot be formally defined like a scientific term. It can not be delineated and quantified. It may be that happiness comes knocking on our door but since we do not recognize it, we do not open the door for it. It is possible for a person to live in full mental, spiritual, and physical happiness, and not even realize it. We can look at the happiness of small children. They are happy in their lives of innocence, play, and simplicity. However, they very likely do not realize it. When they grow up and start reading and hearing about this notion called happiness, they begin searching for it like it is something lost.

If happiness could be attained through wealth – through the acquisition of gold, silver, dollars, and a big bank account – then the mountains and the mines would be the rightful possessors of happiness, because of all the wealth that they contain within them. If happiness were achievable through beauty, display, and adornment, then the peacock and the flowers would have more right than us to be happy. If happiness were in strength and power, then wild beasts would have been the most entitled to happiness. If, however, happiness were attainable through noble conduct, wisdom, virtue, integrity, and probity, then the human being would have the greatest right to it.

Happiness can be experienced in many things. It can be found in the smile of an innocent baby. It can be found on the tongue of an honest person speaking a good word or remembering Allah. It resides in the heart of a person who shows tolerance to his brethren. It is in giving a gift without ulterior motives. It is when your Rabb removes some hardship from yourself or from others. It is experienced in the rest that comes after an hour of hard work. How many playboys, tyrants, wrongdoers, and people of wealth and power leave this world never experiencing the best and most beautiful thing that the world has to offer: closeness to Allah and the happiness that comes from communion with Him!

Submitted by ANSAR MEEAH BINT MOHAMED

Notes from brilliant lectures, by exceptional speakers...

Abandon a life of personal desire and adopt a life of ALLAH's pleasure. Fulfill my pledges to ALLAH.

Sufyaan thauri (R.A) says knowledge comes with 5:
* learn to Observe silence,
* learn how 2 Listen attentively,
* Memorise,
* Practice,
* Promote

The biggest tragedy of this ummat is that we consider our leisure time and our surplus wealth as a personal commodity.

A government will remain (even sometimes) with disbelief if there is a sense of justice, But a government will not remain with oppression(even if it is done with believers).

Inculcate Taqwa, because Taqwa is your greatest weapon, and fear your sins more than you fear your enemies because wars and battles are lost on the basis of peoples sins.

Islam is a moderate religion, a balanced nation.
1) moderation and balance in decisions whether in anger or happiness.
2) moderation in expenses whether in wealth or poverty.
3) fear ALLAH in open and in secret.

2 qualities of shukr:
* In matters of deen gaze at those above you.
* In matters of this world/material objects gaze at those below you.

4 signs of a wretched person:
* To forget your passed sins when they are well recorded by ALLAH.
* To continously speak about your good when you don't know if it is accepted or rejected.
* To stretch an envious eye to someone who owns a better world than you.
* To look (Down) at someone that is less pious than you.

Submitted by EB SAITH

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"Sahabah had greater joy in their poverty then we have in our wealth, they where more happy in their sickness then we are in our health, they slept better in the battle then we sleep at home, and they where more happy in their dying then we are in our living."

~ Shaykh Sulayman Moolla Hafizahullah ~

Submitted by MOE ESSACK

Cop pulls over a taxi.
Cop says: "License please."
Taxi driver says: "What for?"
Cop: "You didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign."
Taxi driver: "I slowed down, and no one was coming."
Cop: "You still didn't come to a complete stop. License please."
Taxi driver: "What's the difference?"
Cop: "The difference is you have to come to a complete stop, that's the law. License please!"

Taxi driver: "Heish...if you can show me the difference between slow down and stop, I'll give you my license and you give me the ticket, if not you let me go and no ticket."

Cop says: "Exit your vehicle, sir."
The taxi driver gets out of his taxi, whereupon the cop takes out his truncheon and starts beating the heat out of the taxi driver and says:

"you want me to stop or just slow down?"

Submitted by K MINTY

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