
UNTUK MENDAFTAR, KLIK DI SINI
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 Lord 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?
Tasteful attire will never endearA beautiful funeral dressing is of no benefit to the deceased. Likewise, a person who possesses an evil, envious, hateful nature does not get any benefit from his good outward gestures. Such is the lot of the hypocrite.
a man to one he's wronged
Any more than corpses love
the finery of burial clothes.
O servant of the flesh! How wretchedA person does not become true and noble by virtue of physical strength and stature. If this were the case, then many a beast of burden or carnivore would attain the highest nobility and most sublime humanity. This is why the bodies of men and women are not the measure of their worth.
you grow from your service.
How you have whittle yourself
away in fruitless labors.
Turn your industry to your soul
and labor to perfect its virtues,
For you are by your soul,
not your flesh, a man.
You see and scorn an emaciated man,Size and quantity are not all that matters, nor is a good outward show. What matters most is the heart. If the heart is pure, the body follows, but if the heart is rotten, the whole body is corrupted. The most pious Muslim, Abû Bakr, was a lightweight, slender man, but in spite of that, if his faith were weighed against the combined faith of all the Muslims, his faith would weigh more.
Though his rags clothe the epithet of a lion.
Surely, the well-dressed man impresses
but then you test his mettle,
Only to be disillusioned by
impeccable appearances.
The camel is of grand stature,
but with a head bereft of wisdom,
So all his great bulk
ultimately avails you naught.
The puniest of sparrows
hatches a flock of chicks,
While the she falcon scarcely
rears any chicks at all.