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FAITH: THE WAY TO HAPPINESS

devotion. The only source of the happiness and tranquility of be-
lievers is their faith. Allah makes sincere believers feel happiness
and tranquility as a blessing in their hearts. What believers experi-
ence is not a happiness dependent on circumstances but the spiri-
tual happiness which their faith brings them. As for disbelievers, so
long as they do not believe they will be unhappy. Allah tells us that
in return for their disbelief He makes their hearts unhappy and trou-
bled:
When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands his
breast to Islam. When He desires to misguide someone, He
makes his breast narrow and constricted as if he were
climbing up into the sky. That is how Allah defiles those
who have no faith. (Surat al-An‘am: 125)
As long as they do not abandon their passion for the things of
this world, disbelievers can never know or experience the peace and
happiness which faith brings. Allah expresses the re g ret they will
feel on the Day of Judgment with the words, "They will say, 'If only
we had really listened and used our intellect, we would not have
been Companions of the Blaze.'" (Surat al-Mulk: 10) Allah also tells
us that unhappiness is their lot in the life of this world by reason of
their disbelief:
" Were My Signs not recited to you and did you not deny
them?" They will say, "Our Lord, our miserable destiny
overpowered us. We were misguided people." (Surat al-
Muminun: 106)
Because they live in accordance with Allah's guidance, on the
Day of Judgment, Allah will send believers to a Paradise filled with
blessings where they will remain for all eternity and they will be re-
ceived by its guardians as follows:

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