Contentment
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
contentment · القناعة · al-qanāʿah
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Qanāʻah, named as the only real enrichment.
and whoever lacks contentment, wealth adds no riches to him.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Qanāʿah, contentment with little, prescribed as the way to become independent of needs that cannot simply be abandoned.
So when knowledge is attained of what is in the present — the ugliness of abasing oneself before one who is his like or below him, and the ugliness of haughtiness toward one who is his like or above him — and he knows what is in the outcome, of the evil of the reckoning and the pain of the punishment, and he attains independence of the superfluous need by abandonment and of the essential need by c …
and then by attaining independence of superfluous matters, by way of abandoning them, and of essential ones by contentment.
Manusmṛti
The virtue of self-satisfaction identified as the root of happiness
for contentment is the root of happiness, and the opposite is the root of suffering.