Success in Islamic Concept

Happiness and success in Islamic concept Arifa Tariq Saira Virk Information Technology University Dr.Junaid Qadir11 May 2018?AbstractPurification of center of attention and soulHuman macrocosm is created of water and clay as we know however after that we keep body and soul in it. People just care approximately body, what more or less soul?People do non care closely soul, how to purify it, how to be closer to satisfaction, how to reach closer to felicitousness and success?Many mass around the world suffering from stress, emotional diseases looking for the cure, altogether when they are still hollow inside and dont know how to find the cure. Try to recognize the nausea inside your testify self. ALLAH almighty in Quran focused on the importance of purifying the soul and feel. Try to recognize the sickness inside your own self. Quran Verses ALLAH says in Quran1. He has succeeded who purifies the soul, and he has failed who corrupts the soul. Surah Ash-Shams91910So you hav e dickens choices either purify your soul, try to reach closer to the level of satisfaction or corrupt it. Purification comes from Zakat, Tazkiyah and Tazkiyah of nafs.He also said2. Go to Pharaoh, for verily, he is a transgressor. Say to him Will you purify yourself? Surah An-Naziat 7917-183.He has succeeded who purifies himself, who remembers the name of his Lord and prays. Surah Al-Ala8714-15 This is how purification is tie in to the success and happiness.We learn from these verses that our success and happiness in life here and hereafter depends on our uncanny purification. We must purify our hearts from environmental and spiritual diseases like greed, hatred, lie, pride, ignorance and other harmful worldliness diseases and try to adopt the spiritual virtues to help the environment and suffice humanity by adopting justice, generosity, compassion and many more. Types of heart1. plump and healthy heartALLAH says in QuranA day when there leave al unrivalled be no benefit in w ealth or children, but only in he who comes to Allah with a pure heart. Surah Ash-Shuara 2688-89 The type of heart which is healthy and good and only sake refuge from ALLAH and will rescue him on the Day of Judgment.The truth and mend heart is which is secure from shirk and work will all the love and desire that his actions are only for ALLAHs sake by obeying his all orders and sayings.Their some question can come in someones mind that1. Does all these activities done by man are just temporary, for to attain bored things and desire for the sake of praise from the people?2. Was all these activities done without any fear of people? Was all the activities done just with the pure believe to serve the chieftain ALLAH almighty?3. Was all the actions done also to please the last Prophet (PBUH) of ALLAH.The 1st two questions requires sincerity (IKHLAS) that all the things are just for the Master and 3rd question requires to follow the foot step of last Prophet of ALLAH (MUTABAAH). None of our actions will be considered accepted if Ikhlas and Mutabaah both conditions do not met. Having sound heart it joins the ranks of truthfulness, secure, healthy and happy heart.We clean our house, when we invite someone to our house in addition clean your heart as if you want to invite ALLAH and have religious belief and patience. He will make all the doors of happiness and success open for you. Nobody knows your pain more than who creates us, nobody in this world cares for us as often as the ALLAH and HE is all knowing and most wise Indeed. 2. Sick heartThe diseased heart which is either closer to secure his dreams of world, secure his worldly life or very close to devastation.This heart only contains love of ALLAH, show trust and reliance upon him only for the sake of his worldly essentials. This heart only shows eagerness to attain his desires, the desires which only does exists in this temporary world. This heart also contains jealousy, arrogance, pride, self-amazement a nd corruption only for the worldly matters which does only make us much closer to destruction and devastation.Man just had forgotten his purpose of creation in this mortal world, ho forgot that each body part has a job, similarly a heart also had a job, and if it is sick it will not do his job properly . Indeed ALLAH is the Guide of those who believe, to the straight path.3. Dead heartThis type of heart is dead, having no life. This heart does not follow any path else than then path which pleased him. This heart does not know about its Lord or Master, in short it is a slave of his own desires, action and activities. If he fulfills his dreams, he does not care about pleasing or displeasing of his Master (The one who creates him).If it loves, it loves just for the sake of his desires and if he hates it does only just for the sake of his own mean. In short his dreams are his master. He is a person of his own desires. The man with this heart is putting himself to the way to destruction and devastation.SoulSoul is the essence of human body, the main importance as compared to other creations of ALLAH. attainment does not reached about the soul, that what is the essence of the soul. When any living creator dies like an animal as compared to human there is no difference in its wait, but the moment when human dies, immediately there is a loss of wait that means something he is losing the moment he dies.Quran Says 1. Every soul shall have taste of oddment. (Surah Al Imran) In this world there is a life for the test of here after and every person shall have taste of death.2. ALLAH has created death and life to test which of you in good deeds (Suran Al Mulk)For there is no pleasure, sweetness, ibtihaaj or perfection except by knowing and loving to the Master,there is only peace in remembering him, happiness and success is only by being closer to him and desiring to meet him in the life hereafter.Discovering self for happiness In Islamic tradition, the who am I? question in the broadest sense of the word is more important and comes prior to the strongly related subject of happiness. Happiness is not a goal to be pursued on its own, rather to be attained as part of realization of discovering and nurturing the self.As the subject of happiness is enclose within the study of the self, it cannot be explained outside the term self or soul, (nafs) that includes a broad range of topics including the heart (qalb), spirit (ruh), intellect (aql), and will (irada) as well as human nature (fitrah) (Nasr, 2014).The nafs when extensioned in the Quran without any addition, refers to self and exists of three levels that are interconnected to each other (Schimmel, 1994, 184) nafs ammara (1253) The set out (animal) self, the carnal soul that incites to evil. nafs lawwama (752) The struggling self. nafs mutmainna (8927) The higher self at peace, the satisfied, peaceful perfection realized sage soul.Naquib Al-Attas (Philosopher) explains the two dimensions to hap piness in Islamic understanding with two different terms pleasure and true happiness. The self (nafs) attains true happiness from knowledge and good acknowledgment (virtue) experienced by the rational soul (higher self) and happiness of transient quality from worldly (bodily) pleasures experienced by the animal soul (Attas, 1995, 91-92).However, comprehending and knowing the truth about the self and idol is not sufficient, one also needs to act according to this truth and therefore moral virtues are important (Khadduri, 1984, 82). The connection between happiness, success and moral virtues, Al-Kindi explains that in overcoming veridical and psychological causes of sorrow, material possessions and other worldly deeds are nothing compared to the cultivation of virtues.Virtues play an important role in the attainment of happiness related to this world and the hereafter (Nasr, 2014).Tawakkul on Allah and Ibadat for happiness & successThe person who possesses tawakkul attains the sta te of contentment. This person still faces the ordinary challenges of earthly life but does so in a state of inner contentment.As the Quran states explicitly, this is why the friends of God (the awliya?), who have fully attained the stations of tawakkul and rida? ?, are neither fearful nor sorrowful. For such people, take down the fear of God is transformed into joy, for this fear is the beginning of wisdom, as stated by St. Paul and also in the famous saying (hadith) of the Prophet, The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. 13 Performing obligatory ibadat requires self-discipline and sacrifice but result in happiness and success.As call of prayer (Adhan) states Hayya ala-l-FalahHurry to success (Rise up for Salvation)Success of Muslim is to hurry for its obligatory duties which make him/her successful in this life and also in hereafter.Similarly, Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah has narrated that the Holy Prophet stated, in that respect are two glad tidings for the man who fasts one at t he time of sunset and the other when he meets his Rab. (Sahih Bukhari 255/1 1805)It is not however only the ibadat themselves that bring about happiness it is also our knowingthat in performing them we are doing Gods Will and thereby experiencing the grace (barakah) that issues from the performance of sacred rites.In carrying out ordinary human transactions, or muya?-mala?t, in accordance with the Sharyah, one is also doing Gods Will.14Success of the selfThe success of the self, as explained in the Quran, lies in allowing the self to grow and one who disallows the self (soul) to grow, who destroys this growth, is describes as one who is in failure (917-10). The development of the self, that is given the capacity to distinguish right from wrong (917), includes falling and standing and making choices.This process of growth is not focused on making faultless, sinless, pure good creatures (angels) at the end (431).The highest stage in that sense that is aimed at, is the level where the re is mutual satisfaction reached between the self and God but also within the self as a whole (8927).Also for the success of a person soul and self the ihsan is necessary element.As mention in Quran Verily Allah likes from a doer of an action that when an action is performed, it is made beautiful (yuhsinahu)Allah is good and only accepts that which is good. Related by Muslim (no. 1686)Ihsan entails acquiring good character trait. Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, I was sent to perfect good character.Also, come in hadith The shell of you in Islam are those who are most excellent in character as long as you deeply understand the religion. Ahmad, SahihThe person who possess the character traits of ihsan and does his/her work with perfection are true successful people.These traits are No harming and reciprocating harm Do not envy what people have Trust in Allah (Twakkul)If a person have these traits that is close to Allah and most satisfied.SufismThe Islamic philosophers have also dealt extensively with the question of happiness, which they, like the Sufis, associate in its essence with the invariable and the enduring and, following the Quran, with paradisal realities and the Hereafter. Ibn Sna? in Latin, ibn-Sina, the prince of the Islamic philosopher-scientists whose influence pervades all later Islamic philosophy, associates happiness with purification of the soul and knowledge of the intelligible world, the world of light, from which it descended into this world.In his famous Poem of the Soul, he writes,15Why then was she the soul cast down from her high peakTo this degrading depth? God brought her lowBut for a purpose wise, that is concealedEen from the keenest mind and loveliest wit.And if the tangled mesh impeded her,The narrow cage denied her wings to soarFreely in heavens high ranges after allShe was a lightning-flash that brightly glowed Momentarily over the tents, and then was hidAs thoug h its gleam was never glimpsed below.Ibn S?n?a? considers the happiness of the soul to be the result of the process of the soul to reach, through self-purification, the state of tajarrud, which can be attained not only in the Hereafter, but also in this life. Purification prepares the soul for the attainment of that knowledge that results in true happiness.16The Attainment of happiness and success (Conclusion)To understand and attain happiness is different thing.All religion and cultures know how to achieve transient happiness and success. But real challenge is achieving perm happiness and success in this world and hereafter. In Islam, as in other authentic religions, that permanent state of happiness is attained by gaining not the freedom of the passionate self to receive whatever it desires, but freedom from desire and from the passionate self.17.To attain permanent happiness, we must therefore remember who we in truth are, where we came from, why we are here, and where we are g oing. We must detach ourselves from fleeting pleasures and joys and seek permanent joy by attaching ourselves to the spiritual world, which is our original home and the only state of affairs where we shall attain permanent happiness.We must die before we die die to the world here and now in order to gain eternal triumph in the life of the spirit and the intellect understood in its traditional sense. We must experience the happiness that issues from faith (ma?n), which provides for us security (ama?n) from all that would uncase us of happiness.18Through faith, correct actions, prayer, and realized knowledge, we must break all the walls of ego, we must do so through compassion, charity, and through karam, which are bound to love and separate of selfishness and self-centeredness that are impediments of the attainment of happiness.Bibliography 1 Nasr, S. 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