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Happiness is a state of mind that we create within ourselves by focusing on gratitude and contentment, and fostering authentic connections with others.
The most meritorious and beneficial of all actions is to fill each minute with remembrance, with consciousness, presence, awareness and gratitude.
Happiness is attained by three things: (1) Being patient when tested, (2) Being thankful when receiving a blessing, and (3) Being repentant upon sinning.
Those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, and establish regular prayers and regular charity, will have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.
Whatever we do anything for our parents, it will never be enough, and never sufficient to repay them for their sacrifices that they done for us.
The benefit of prayer is that it leads us to happiness, to security, to stability, to joy, and to awareness and awakening.
After offering each of your daily prayers, as you begin to make dua, supplication, begin first with mentioning at least three things that you are grateful for.
Allah tests us to elevate us, to wash away our sins, to purify us, to strengthen us, to increase us in knowledge, guidance, gratitude, and resilience. Allah plans for us far better than what our minds are able to comprehend. He plans of us better than we plan for ourselves, and He wants mercy and salvation for us more than we want it for ourselves.
Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you. If this belief is firmly ingrained in your heart, all hardship and difficulty would turn into ease and comfort.
When you are afflicted with disaster, glad tidings await you, so remain patient and happy with your Lord.
Surrender yourself; believe in preordainment, before pangs of anger and regret overwhelm you. If you have done all that was in your power, and afterwards what you had been striving against still takes place, have firm faith that it was meant to be.
Traveling to different lands is an activity which doctors recommend, especially for those who are feeling downcast, constricted by the narrowness of their own rooms. Therefore go forth and find delight in traveling.
Sadness enervates the soul’s will to act and paralyzes the body into inactivity. Sadness prevents one from taking action instead of compelling one towards it.
Therefore, do not become excessively anxious when you think of pain, and do not fear suffering. It might well be that through pain and suffering, you will become stronger.
For the people of the Sunnah, there are three things that they resort to when faced with calamity: patience, supplication, and waiting with expectation for a good outcome.
«Whoever is patient, Allah will give him further strength to continue to be patient.»
Higher goals are not achieved through dreaming or fantasizing; they can only be reached through dedication and commitment.
Do not grieve over how people treat you, and learn this lesson by observing how they behave with Allah.
Appreciate that the choice of what is good for you or not good for you belongs only with Allah (the Exalted): {...And it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you.} (Qur’an 2: 216)
Don’t be shaken by hardships
Pause to think about hardships
The moral: happiness, cheerfulness, and calmness are often more efficacious than doctors’ pills.
