Being ME - finding happiness

What happiness means to you?
How do you strive for happiness?
Where can you find your happiness?
Who can give you the happiness you want in life?

Guidance - Ustz Musleh Khan:


1. Strive for Allah's pleasure

• In everything you do in life 
• Strive to please Allah, not to please other people

2. Be grateful with the Qadr of Allah

• Allah has determined your Qadr - you have to accept it
• Be grateful and appreciate what Allah give to you. You will never know what is going to happen to you tomorrow. You  might be healthy today, but Allah can take away your health tomorrow. You might be rich today, but Allah can take them all away from you in a blink of an eye!
• So be satisfied with Allah's Qadr - you are not in control in everything

3. Satisfy your soul - you need to feed your soul with Quran and prayer. You need to follow the Sunnah, zikir and most importantly, obey Allah.

4. Choose a wise companion:

• Your friends can determine if you enter Hell or Jannah
• Choose your friends wisely: choose those who can bring you nearer to Allah, those who are above you, not below you. If they are below you, they can bring you down. If you cannot find companions who are more superior, than just keep to yourself

5. Prioritize your lifestyle:

• Think: What do you think first thing you wake up? Do you quickly want to check out your Facebook? Or do you wake up and feel syukur, you are still alive and thank Allah for another day you have to increase your Ibadah?
• We as Muslims, should always plan ahead - we should not think of the past too much, things have been done. 
• Your future must be better than you are now or yesterday. 
• So, always plan ahead, and make yourself better everyday.
• Always be positive in whatever you do - prioritize your lifestyle.

6. Choose righteous husband (or wife)

• Happiness lies in your spouse
• Your married life will define your happiness - with your children

How to get a good husband (for the single ladies):

1. If they are kind to their family and everyone around them - they are more likely to do the same to you. 
2. Responsible in all levels: if you can find a responsible husband, he will be responsible to you financially, spiritually and everything else.

7. True happiness lies within righteous deeds:

• Recite quran
• Do all the righteous deeds: follow Quran and Sunnah
• When you do something right, you will feel right.

(I took notes from the lecture on that day - so these were from my understanding, could be right/wrong but insyaAllah they are all right)