Shadee Elmasry – Do NOT Focus on Happiness

01 September 2024

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The speaker discusses the importance of not worshiping happiness and living life to be a good servant to Allah. The goal is to accept and minimize sadness, while also realizing the purpose of one's life and the potential consequences of their actions. The speaker emphasizes that the fastest way to achieve this is accepting and embracing the pain of one's life.

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It's very important we don't worship happiness.

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Our goal is not to always be happy.

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Your goal is to be a good servant

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to Allah. Again, your focus has to be

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on Allah, not on yourself.

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So it's very important to realize

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constriction,

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grief, sadness, upsetness

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does have a place. And if Allah ordained

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it for a certain reason, accept it. Here's

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the trick. The faster you come to terms

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that this has a place in life, And

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if Allah ordains it, don't fight it back.

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That is the fastest route to minimize all

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your sadness

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by accepting it, realizing it's part of life,

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realizing it's part of god's will for us,

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part of Allah's test for us, but more

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than that, realizing its purpose.

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Allah

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said we never made them taste any punishment

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except so they can return back to us.

"I really think this is one of the greatest causes one could support"

Mufti Ismail Menk