The Concept of Happiness and its Reality - Mufti Menk - Light Upon Light 12

[Music] assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh smilla rahmanir rahim' alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salam o allah rasool allah who Allah Allah he was happy ajma'in we praise Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala we send blessings and salutations upon muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam his household his companions we ask Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala to bless them to bless every one of us to grant us goodness to open the doors of goodness in this world for us and to grant us success in the Hereafter such that we are united with Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam in general fair DOS I mean my beloved brothers and sisters we are talking about happiness and happiness is something that if you were to know is the most searched one of the most searched words on Google and on social media on the internet people are searching for happiness and it seems like no one is actually achieving that happiness perhaps because they are searching in places that happiness is not found and perhaps they don't know how to achieve it and perhaps they are looking at people who don't really have happiness if I were to ask a young boy or girl what would make you happy they would usually normally answer with a materialistic answer very material people would say you know what if I had the latest car I would be happy if I had the latest phone I would be happy if I had the nice home I would be happy meaning a house if I had the latest perfume I'd be happy if I looked good I would be happy if I had the latest clothes I would be happy if I attracted the attention of others I would be happy yet every single one of those will not give you happiness besides that which is very temporary and very very fake Subhan Allah you can have the latest phone it's not a source of happiness it might make you happy for a moment and thereafter as soon as you hear there is another phone you are unhappy it goes to show that there is something wrong maybe your understanding or my understanding of happiness needs to be fine tuned in accordance with what my maker has taught and definitely definitely if you would like happiness there is no way that you could ignore revelation there is no way that you could ignore the one who made you and I for indeed it is only through the teachings of the one who made you that you will understand why you're in existence if you take a look subhanAllah at yourself you will realize that there was a time when you were not in existence there was a time when nobody could actually refer to you as he or she or even it because you didn't exist so you came from somewhere and so did I who ever made me has definitely sent a message to me telling me why he made me and if I were to search revelation whatever is available on earth today I would definitely find that the most authentic of all those books is the Quran without a doubt without a doubt people may have a lot to say about what is in the Quran because they don't understand or they don't know the context or they haven't looked into it or perhaps sometimes they are tainted with some form of a lack of understanding may Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala open our doors but if you were to look at Allah telling us one fall upon tonnage in well Analia boo [Music] I have not created mankind or jinn kind except that they worship me people look at that verse and I promise you I've had young people tell me that is so boring audhu billah naudhu billah that is so boring so maybe you haven't understood that verse it actually refers to leading your entire life within what Allah has ordained and that will bring about happiness and contentment happiness is a choice that you have you actually would make that choice you can be happy people who are unhappy generally look at what they don't have and people who are happy look at what Allah has bestowed upon them in order to enjoy it within the limits of Allah you know if a person were to commit adultery for example may Allah protect all of us if a person were to try to look for happiness in that which would displease Allah it might bring about a temporary feeling a false feeling within oneself of happiness but it's not actually happiness you are sowing a seed of regret of sadness you're sowing a seed of evil that will germinate and grow into a huge wild forest if you're not careful may allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala not allow us to become lost in such forests for indeed if you were to watch the globe today some of those who have the most glamorous lives outwardly are some of the most depressed people they don't have that happiness because they are not content with what Allah has given them when Allah says I've created you and jinn kind in order that you worship me it means in order that you lead a life that is within what I have taught to stay away from the bad and do good and then Allah says Subhanahu WA Ta'ala Manami loss only have the carrion Sawa who I mean a fella no Union who hired I mean whoever from amongst you male or female believes and does good deeds we guarantee them that they will have a beautiful life they will be happy that's what Allah means here because hayatun tayyiba cannot be possible a good life a beautiful life of pure life a nice life is not possible unless you're happy so to be happy you need to look at a few factors number one your relationship with Allah your face do you believe that Allah is your maker do you believe you're going to return to him do you believe that no matter how much you have on earth this earth will not give you more than two square meters when you leave it you could be a billionaire a millionaire you could have every latest technology and gadget but I promise you when you leave this world it will only give you two square meters to be buried and thereafter you will be decomposed in there in most cases another or a third and the fourth buried on the same spot as time passes may allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant us ease this is why we say when we came on to earth we actually came without anything we didn't even have clothes and when we leave we will be stripped of that clothing we will be enshrouded in a respectful way but we leave with nothing as well so while we're on earth make most of the opportunities Allah gives you to gain closeness to him if you don't have faith you will never be a happy person i japan liamri movement the affairs of a true believer are amazing why are they amazing so in amaura who couldn't a hula hoe hair because no matter what happens to him or her it is always good for him and her it can never be bad Allah doesn't do something bad but Allah gives you opportunities to shine Allah gives you an opportunity to prove yourself Allah gives you an opportunity to bear sabor to bear patients so this hadith continues to say if hardship be false the true believer then he or she is patient so it is better for him or her and if goodness comes in direction of a true believer then he or her is very very grateful to Allah it makes him or her closer to Allah in terms of worship so that is better for him or her may allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant us happiness truly my brothers and sisters the closer you are to allah the happier you will be when you make allah happy you will definitely be happy point number one i raised is the issue of your conviction in allah your faith in allah your belief and your relationship with allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala how is it hey we've heard that so many times it means come to success but when the caller appointed by allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is calling us to true success we are heading in the wrong direction we are going away we're not particularly with our prayer and our connection with allah and we expect happiness can it come who is the owner of happiness is it not allah he is telling you come come to success and what are we doing we couldn't be bothered at times our oath of Allah may Allah protect us so when we search for that happiness with those who don't own it it's like asking a beggar for a million dollars but when you are asking the right one and when you're seeking it in the right direction from the owner of it it's like asking a multi-billionaire for one cent Subhan Allah may Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala open our doors so my brothers and sisters you want happiness you need to develop your link with Allah you need to improve yourself when we have for example a happy day a day of eid a day of a marriage and wedding etc etc make sure that we understand that happiness in the long term and the short term will only be achieved by making unlock a pion that day sometimes when we see these happy days we cannot help but to ask ourselves have we just intentionally displeased Allah here may Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala protect so land keep guiding us I mean secondly remember your family is of utmost importance Allah created you within a certain group of people Allah made for you someone known as your father your mother they may be good people in a lot of cases most cases perhaps they may not be good people in some cases they may be ridiculous in some cases but Allah tells you be kind to them we made you we know what you want we know what you're looking for you're looking for success in happiness contentment we're going to give it to you but we want you to realize the channel through which we chose to bring you on to us includes these parents of yours your siblings your relatives and this is why Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala stresses this so many times starting with the parents walk of our bunker Allah in Yahoo a bin Laden yes and Allah has declared and dictated decreed that none shall be worshipped besides him and that you shall become kind to your parents and the verses continue to say how you need to actually be kind to them what that kindness entails subhanAllah but what you need to know my brothers and sisters if you ignore the channel through which Allah has created you how would you achieve happiness so you may disagree with your parents on certain issues you may if they are totally wrong but you need to be respectful you need to be kind and this is why Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala says Orange I had - shriek abhi Melanie Celica be in fella - to whom was a Hebrew Murph in dunya mauve if they are trying and striving to make you associate partners with Allah in the displeasure of Allah Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala says in that case you turn that down you don't accept what they're instructing you to do but you keep on treating them with goodness politeness with that which which is common with that which is known as the treatment that parents should be receiving from you Subhan Allah without treating your parents and your family members in a good way you're not going to be able to be happy people are searching for happiness all over wallahi my brothers and sisters in our homes our own spouses we live together but we are far apart because each one is searching for happiness perhaps on social media sometimes we look at what is on social media we begin to compare our lives with the lives of others who are not actually meeting those lives and therefore we lose our contentment but to be honest with you the hadith says Rakata a jury I remain at dunya AMA v have the two units that you can offer for prayer before salat will fade your forever that Sunnah of Rajab is better for you than the whole world and what it can offer you some on Allah whatever is in it it's better than that and what are we doing at that time we're snoring Subhan Allah the rules and regulations of the Deen laid by Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala are not there in order to make you unhappy they are not there in order to make you lose your sleep Oh [Music] elena calcaño an elite Ashbaugh inlet at Gimmerton Lima the beginning of syrup aha allah clarifies a question that a lot of muslims have why are there so many rules and regulations why does allah make this forbidden and why is this okay why is it not okay for me to do this and why is it that I have to do this Allah says Taha we have not revealed this were on to you this revelation to you o muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that you can be the - car that you can lose this happiness this goodness that you can be a person who's unsuccessful whatever else you'd like to say subhanAllah in terms of negativity the Perron is not revealed for a person to become unhappy unsuccessful for a person to become sad no these rules are there for long-term happiness my brothers and sisters when you and I went to school I'm sure a lot of us are still at school mashallah when you and I went to school why did we go there listen very carefully you started off pre grade one with the nursery or the crash as they call it in order for you to start learning how to read and write you went to school grade one you suffered with examination after examination test after test and so on and you were happy if your parents had to communicate with you they would have told you it's not about coming first it's about trying your best it's about trying your best and so you continue one year two years how many years seven years later you graduate into high school right or college in a lot of cases after that the tests become more and more difficult to my brothers and sisters but you're looking forward to it your parents are cheering you along you feel happy because now and again you achieve a little certificate that doesn't last long meaning it's just a prize of the week or the month or sometimes the year and you work harder the following year and the books become bigger and bigger do you not agree for what they're after you graduate from high school and you end up applying for universities getting loans in a halal way I hope in order to go to the universities in order to study and sweat and you haven't even started earning a penny subhanAllah you study for 25 years thereafter you get a salary in which you start paying back what you might have loaned in order to do those studies but you're happy you're okay why because you want to live for another 25 years so you sweat for 25 years in order to earn a little bit to help you for another 25 years not counting the 10 years in between paying back that loan subhanAllah and you've lived for 60 years now you're ready to do what you're probably probably a grandfather perhaps may Allah make it easy for us I mean but a few more years and you've got to go to Allah and you don't realize that that when when the world promised you that if you study for 25 years we'll offer you a hundred thousand pounds a year for the next 25 years then you believed the world but when Allah promised you that if you fulfill what we're telling you for 50 years we're going to give you eternity with whatever you want with absolute and total happiness such that you will never ever regret then we don't want to believe Allah and then we want happiness subhanAllah I always say Lochaber there's a verse in the Quran where Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala tells us those who believe those who don't believe in the hereafter the two are very very different if a man has an for who Allah P comma matter no matter Al Hayat it dunya so my Ummah looking at Amina body Allah says can the to be equal on one hand the one whom we have made a promise to that is definitely a true promise and he will definitely see it she will no doubt see it and get it that's the promise of genital cerdos and on the other hand the one who wants the worldly life and gets it and achieves it but has not developed a connection with Allah such that they lose the Hereafter may Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala help us and when I read this verse and pondered over it I thought of something amazing if you were to be promised a job and you were told listen my brother 20,000 pounds a month oh wow he's in that a beautiful salary twenty thousand pounds a month and you only work a few hours in the day and you relax Subhan Allah would you go for the job if it was Helen would you go for it come on don't pretend like twenty thousand is not a good salary guys would you go for it masha'Allah yes I would I think - may Allah make it easy I hope but my brothers and sisters they give you a monthly salary right twenty days have passed you've worked hard you're so excited because someone has promised you that when 30 days cross you're going to see your bank account twenty thousand deposited right you're so excited you work hard twenty-five days you're working even harder 26 days you start planning what you're going to be doing 27 days you are so so happy delighted you might start ordering things that you don't even know you're going to be able to afford if that money doesn't come in and so what happens 29 30 days and you go to check your bank balance you look at the phone you see here is either a moment delay and you are so upset right and a person promised you that in 30 days you work so hard when it's finished when it's over when you're done with it I will pay 20,000 and you were ready to believe them and perhaps they may have given it to you but when allah rabbul izzat evil general tells you to work an entire lifetime and to work very easy works Allah doesn't take too much of you being a good person doesn't take too much of you and then we don't believe Allah but we can believe the guy down the street when we got a job there we don't believe Allah we have a doubt in our hearts we don't get excited the older you get the happier you should be that I am closer to what Allah has promised me I always tell people would you like Jenna let's ask you would you like Jenna yes who wants to die the answer is not yet Lochaber but to get to Jenna you need to go somewhere it goes to show ultimate happiness is something that Allah has kept in store for the believers in the dunya and the earth Sarah you need to look after your relationship with Allah your relationship with your family your relationship with the community you live in because you will only achieve happiness when you make others happy without that you're not going to be achieving that happiness can Allah fear only labadie McConnel a Bidoof ionia thehe allah continues to help a slave for as long as that slave is helping another may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us happiness and goodness so if you want happiness search for those who have less than you that's the criteria that Allah has given you to be happy Allah didn't say it for no reason but Allah is telling you you really want that happiness well there are so many people who don't have what you have help them reach out to them look at them you appreciate what you have I promise you the problem with most of us is we keep looking at those who have more than us and we forget to look at those who have less we keep looking at the next thing the next thing all of that even those who won the lottery I'm not talking about its permissibility here I'm talking about those who won the lottery please go and search and see that their happiness did not last more than a few months in most cases in almost all cases go and see how many of them have committed suicide thereafter yet they want millions and billions that is why I read a story of someone who wanna huge lottery they decided to donate it because they didn't want their lives to be compromised but with us subhanAllah happiness is become connected to materialism and that is fake Allah tells you my brothers and sisters I want to say something very interesting I don't have much time but inshallah we'll meet later on in the day the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the most beloved and to allah thereafter the prophets of allah the messengers their companions and so on the most beloved unto allah abu bakr as-siddiq radiyaallahu anhu the best to tread this earth after the messengers of allah subhanahu wata'ala Omar Abdel Fattah Brody Allah who and whom the companions and all of them Allah loved them more than you and I do you agree the prophets are salam the best of creation the most noble of all prophets he didn't have a phone he didn't have electricity he didn't have him he didn't get to sit on an aircraft he didn't have the cars we have he didn't have the roads we have the phones the technology the Internet none of it zero not one droplet of not even a tap that he could open and the water came out they had to go they had to go for water they had to light a fire in a certain way they had to ride on camels and donkeys and so on that they were the happiest of people if Allah kept happiness in these things the first person he would have ever given this to was mohamed abrini Abdullah and Hashimi al karashi sallallahu alayhi wasallam being the best of creation the most noble of all prophets even he didn't get all of that because Allah knows that there was no value in this connected to your happiness on earth or connected to your happiness in the hereafter don't be mistaken those whom Allah has loved more than you and I well aji they didn't have a fraction of what we have in terms of materialism and technology because that is valueless in the eyes of Allah you have to use all of that as a pleasure and an honor and we will use it but in order to gain closeness to Allah it's a bigger challenge have you ever thought of it who's better you or abu bakr as-siddiq i'm sure he is hundred percent better he didn't have any of what we have in terms of technology but that doesn't reduce his value at all if Allah wanted Tabar I can levy like a fire on the lake if Allah wanted he could have given you much better than that may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us ease I want to mention the last factor I spoke about community I want to say we need to understand ourselves be happy with yourself be content with what Allah has bestowed upon you reach out to others fulfill the instructions of Allah and see how you will be happy throughout the day today we will be looking at various aspects of the family and how to bring about happiness within that family may allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant every one of us success in the dunya and akhirah true happiness like I said it's your choice you can be happy make others happy make the environment around you easy develop your relationship with Allah and here goes you will always be happy even if you're living in a hut a Kulak only has or sallallahu wasallam or barakah ala nabina muhammad [Music]

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Published: Fri Jan 04 2019