{"id":285,"date":"2014-11-05T11:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2014-11-11T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:41:11","slug":"happiness-in-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/happiness-in-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"The concept of happiness in Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Too often people believe in this worldly fallacy that everything that has the tendency to give you\u00a0joy and inner peace is forbidden in Islam and is not to be practiced. Islam says no drink, no love\u00a0and joy&#8230;&#8230;so how would you ever live happily?<\/p>\n<p>What people don\u2019t understand is that real delight is in living civilly and obliging to rules that\u00a0Allah created and not divert, this will lead to inner peace and a peaceful soul is indeed a happy\u00a0soul. I think the concept of happiness in Islam is very relative in today\u2019s fast paced society. Some\u00a0people derive happiness out of adultery, some alcohol and some by indulging in activities like\u00a0socializing and useless expenditure of money and other resources. What people don\u2019t realize is\u00a0that these activities are forbidden in pretty much all religions and faiths and just to prove a point,\u00a0these activities are done in order to fill a void that can very well be filled by just creating a long\u00a0lasting relationship with Allah in the first place. The truth is that Islamic rules do not at all go\u00a0against the natural urges of the human being but teaches us to live in a subtle manner, keeping\u00a0things in order and not lose the real purpose of life along the way, which is only fulfillment of\u00a0Allah\u2019s rules and staying on his path. As a matter of fact, the central role of the Islamic rules is\u00a0to cultivate the human behavior and to enable humans to master their natural urges, instead of\u00a0being enslaved by them.aThis world is not permanent and the teachings and rules of Islam simply work as guidance\u00a0for those who want to ascend and help get a better understanding of what\u2019s right and wrong\u00a0and what is actually everlasting. Hence, real happiness does not exist in materialistic and\u00a0temporal enjoyment or in how much we own of that. True happiness is in the fact we live our\u00a0life as humans [elevated beings] and succeed in fulfilling the mission of our creation, which is\u00a0servitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-288 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/01-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"happiness in islam\" width=\"333\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/01-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/01.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often people believe in this worldly fallacy that everything that has the tendency to give you\u00a0joy and inner peace is forbidden in Islam and is not to be practiced. Islam says no drink, no love\u00a0and joy&#8230;&#8230;so how would you ever live happily? What people don\u2019t understand is that real delight is in living civilly [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[20,21,22,23,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaalimonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}