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Life: A Test, A Joy Or Both?
Can the pursuit of happiness be the ultimate purpose of life, while religion claims that life is fundamentally a test?
If religion views life as a trial of moral responsibility, can a person still choose happiness as their primary goal without contradicting that religious worldview?
Is it possible for both “happiness” and “trial” to coexist as life purposes or must one submit to the other?
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Life: A Test, A Joy Or Both?
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To pursue happiness is natural. That is why God promises this happiness in Jannah in its complete sense. When we succeed in our trials and make good choices, it gives us happiness.
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A non-religious philosopher once helped me realize what I now feel is the most profound and beautiful human experience the experience of true happiness.
He not only defined it but also showed me a way to approach it through understanding, learning, and self-awareness. When I followed his method, I began to see results in my thoughts and in my life.
On the other hand, when I look to religion for similar guidance, I often find no clear method for how to reach such understanding. It claims that life is a tes but I struggle to see what exactly is being tested, and how the test is supposed to be passed.
If a non-religious thinker could help me uncover such a meaningful truth about life, then what does religion offer that I couldn’t find through reason and experience?
What is the value of calling life “a test” if it doesn’t clearly show us the path, or if that path feels less real and transformative than the one I’ve already found?
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Religion does not come to teach how to get happy or get successful in life, it does not come, for example, how to do business, or agriculture, or how to make scientific discoveries. It is frivolous if religion teaches the same as our intellect can teach us.
Religion, on the other hand, tells us why we are here and to what end we are heading. Human intellect, despite all its efforts of centuries, could not find the answers to these fundamental questions.
Take from religion what it offers. and take from others what they can offer.
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