Felicity
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
al-dawām · al-khulūd · felicity · saʻādah · saʻādah ḥaqīqīyah dāʼimah · the fair felicities · الخلود · الدوام · سعادة حقيقية دائمة
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Happiness in both worlds, the terminus of the therapy and hygiene of the soul.
In sum, the fair felicities and the praiseworthy traits of character are attained only by abstaining from base actions and by repeating fine actions, growing accustomed to them, fixing them one time after another, going to lengths in them and guarding them, until the soul is made straight and even — like a crooked piece of wood which one wishes to straighten and set even, for it becomes even only …
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Lasting, unmixed happiness, argued to be unobtainable in this world and therefore to require an immortal station in the spiritual world.
And since man has in this world no real and lasting felicity unmixed with turbidities, the truth is determined (3), namely immortality in the spiritual world and a perpetuity that does not pass away (4).
[44] And were there no other precious station beyond the one we are now in, the virtuous souls would not (4) yearn toward it.