A Joy-Seeking Look on Creation

Man’s happiness and salvation, first of all, depends on his type of worldview and mentality. The type of outlook one assumes can create hope, vitality, and vigor or on the one hand and dejection, despair, hatred and pessimism on the other hand. From this point of view, pain and the treatment of pain are both internal, though the effect of external factors can not be underestimated. There is a large number of people who subsist on basics but they live a happy life and have good relations with other people. On the other hand we can see people who enjoy the highest level of welfare facilities, but they feel they are stuck and feu up with their lives. As they suffer from lack of internal support they experience a feeling of absurdity and they think they have reached the end of their lives. The people who commit suicide are of this type. An understanding of the ultimate purpose of creation and philosophy of humna existence are among the blessed thoughts that can help human beings assume valuable sublime outlooks. In this worldview, the compassionate and merciful God Who is the ultimate source of goodness, joy and compassion has created man to feel pure all-inclusive eternal intellectual delight which starts in this world but continues eternally. The present paper aims to develop this theme drawing on Quranic verses and traditions.