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Nouman Ali Khan

Do you want to actually be happy

Nouman Ali Khan

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:06.8

What actually makes someone happy and this feeling that we have of happiness

0:13.0

It's a very temporary feeling

0:15.4

You as much as it's desired and pursued

0:18.8

Somebody said, you know, somebody posts a picture of some going to some beautiful vacation and they could see like an amazing city behind them

0:26.2

Sunny skies they could see a beautiful escape, you know the landscape or waterfall or mountains or whatever and they look really happy

0:34.0

But go to a vacation enough times. They'll all the places start looking the same

0:38.6

It's not it's not the same excitement for you anymore. It's not it doesn't make you happy anymore, right?

0:43.4

So the this thing that we're pursuing it's like a moving target. It's not like once you have it you can hold on to it

0:50.6

It's the same with you know what Allah describes

0:52.8

I've talked about this in other hope before another hope was in sort of Hadid how Allah describes that the crop turns yellow

0:59.4

Right, so the farmer all he wanted was the crop to grow is the entire year

1:03.5

He's waiting for the crop to grow and when it grows they party they celebrate they have harvest festivals

1:09.7

Because finally the fruit of their labor right quite literally for a gardener the fruit of his labor

1:15.3

But even that fruit gets sour even the the stock turns yellow

1:21.2

Right, so the idea there is that we can pursue them kids are like man. I just want to get this new

1:27.2

Whatever new I just want to get a ps5 you can't get it anywhere

1:30.5

It's harder to get than a visa to Amra you know, I just really want to get one if I just had that then I would and then they get it and then

1:37.9

Yeah, I don't really have time to play it. It's kind of but it's okay

1:42.4

You know that the joy of it the high of it drops real quick

1:46.6

The excitement of a new car ask two months later

1:51.0

That's asked too much later the excitement of a new home ask about a year later

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