{"id":15698,"date":"2020-07-27T17:58:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=15698"},"modified":"2020-07-27T17:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:58:43","slug":"happiness-lies-in-following-the-sunnah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=15698","title":{"rendered":"Happiness lies in following the Sunnah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?attachment_id=15700\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15700\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15700\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/happiness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/happiness.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/happiness-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned the following:<\/p>\n<p>It is an accepted fact that each person finds solace and comfort in the things which he likes. For example, a person finds enjoyment in leading a life of luxury, eating good food and wearing expensive clothing. Such a person does not find solace and comfort without these things. However, the person who finds pleasure in sitting on straw mats, sleeping on a simple bedding, consuming simple food and wearing simple clothing, then such a person experiences happiness, solace and comfort in these things.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, those who happily lead a life of simplicity, in order to conform to the Mubaarak lifestyle of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam), then they find true happiness, solace and contentment in such a lifestyle. It is the divine favour of Allah Ta\u2018ala upon such people that He grants them true happiness and contentment, despite leading a simple life and not possessing a lot of the world. This type of lifestyle and the happiness that is linked to it is such that even the poor are able to acquire it.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, if we attach our hearts to the wealth and riches of the world which the wealthy possess, trying to obtain it, then we will constantly remain in a state of worry and uneasiness, as we will never be happy and content with what we possess.<\/p>\n<p>(Malfoozaat Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) pg. 17)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned the following: It is an accepted fact that each person finds solace and comfort in the things which he likes. For example, a person finds enjoyment in leading a life of luxury, eating good food and wearing expensive clothing. Such a person does not find solace and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hazrat-moulana-ilyaas-rahmatullahi-alaih","category-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15702,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698\/revisions\/15702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}