Attitude of Shams toward Happiness

Happiness is an inner experience that all people praise, but achieving it and understanding its value is very difficult. Shams Tabrizi, Mowlana's beloved and spiritual leader, is one of the few mystics who praised happiness very much, and said valuable words on its causes and motivations.Abundant influence of Shams's teachings over Mewlana's ideas, and the role of Mewlana in the mystical poetry tradition caused that this issue be searched independently. In addition, understanding Shams's intellectual basics on the happiness can be useful for understanding importance of this issue in mystical texts. In this research, Shams's points of view on happiness and its causes and motivations are discussed employing a content analysis approach. Spirit, affection, mystical dancing, prayers, paradise imagination, hope, and even death are factors that in Sham's belief cause happiness. However, different people’s happiness is not same, but in this world, everyone is happy with something, and happiness has different kinds.