Everyone chases after happiness, yet few fully recognise what it is or where it comes from.
Happiness isn’t a destination but a journey needing certain inner qualities and a right state of mind to experience and reap. It’s neither sold as a commodity nor can be bought, except through carefully crafting one’s character and following a plan of action. For indeed, those who don’t plan will fail to realise desired results.
The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said,
“Those among us (destined to be) from people of happiness [in the Hereafter] will (find it easy to) enact deeds of people of happiness..”
[ Sahīh Al-Bukhārī, #4948 ]
In other words, by choosing a path reflecting attitudes of happy people, one will recognise its reality and the ease and pleasantry in having good deeds done that are in themselves, characteristics of happy people.
Book: 8 Steps To Happiness
Awakening The Inner Self in Pursuit of Personal Change
By Shaykh Abū ‘Abdu-r-Rahmān Nāsir as-Sa’dī
