Serving Others
We all want to live happy, healthy, fulfilled lives. But the World Happiness Report states that at any one time, over 1 billion adults and 220 million children suffer from anxiety and depression.
But no matter how old you are, you can take steps and immediately put them into action in your life.
There is a Divine design in human beings and giving or serving others has a powerful impact on a person’s happiness.
We serve others because we need to serve others, we do this for our own well-being than our ego satisfaction.
There are significant, scientifically proven studies that enumerate the benefits of giving charity.
When you give, whether you’re giving your money, a gift, an item, your knowledge, or your time, you kick-start a flush of endorphins in your brain. Not only this, but you reduce your stress hormones cortisol levels, too .
Learn how we can make a greater impact — and boost our own happiness along the way — if we make one key shift in how we help others.
Let’s stop thinking about giving as just this moral obligation and start thinking of it as a source of pleasure.
It’s no surprise then to know how much emphasize Islam puts on serving others. It’s an overall theme in the Qur’an and Sunnah that you can easily find.
Allah says in the Quran:
(2:261) The example of those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah is like that of a grain of corn that sprouts seven ears, and in every ear there are a hundred grains. Thus Allah multiplies the action of whomsoever He wills. Allah is Munificent, All-Knowing
Surah Al-Baqarah 2:261
“There is not a single day in which a servant wakes that two angels come down (from the Heavens).
One of them says, ‘O Allah! Give to the one that spends (for the cause of Allah) a substitute (for what he has spent).’
And the other one says, ‘O Allah! Give to the one that withholds (his money form the cause of Allah) destruction!’”
[Al-Bukhari/1442]
