Helping Others Makes You Happy

HELPING OTHERS MAKES YOU HAPPY Helping others is an extremely noble task. When someone helps another to surmount his difficulties, he becomes happy and deserving of God’s succour. A ccording to one tradition, the Prophet of Islam once observed: “That person is enviable whom God has given wealth and then he spends from it day and night to help people.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 7529) According to Islam, wealth has not been given to a person in order to fulfil his wishes. Wealth is rather given to him so that he may use it for the welfare of his fellow human beings. Wealth should be used to earn divine rewards rather than to fulfil one’s personal desires. According to Islam, a person has two responsibilities: one in relation to God and the other in relation to others. In relation to God, a person’s responsibility is to accept His godhead and become His worshipper.