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.

According 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. In relation to human beings, his responsibility is to become the well-wisher of others and come to their assistance on all occasions, whenever there is an opportunity. The individual can help others in many ways. One of these ways is to spend one’s wealth on them. Wealth enables a person to be of help in easing and solving people’s problem. It makes it easy for him to remove others’ difficulties.

Helping others is an extremely noble task. When someone avails of the precious opportunity to help another to surmount his difficulties, he has reason to be happy. This happiness is like reward for his actions. Another great reward is what he will find in the next world.

Coming to the rescue of others is not just a series of isolated incidents. It is a permanent characteristic of the believer. A true believer is one who is happy to bring happiness into the lives of others, who considers that his success lies in fulfilling others’ needs. He is always on the lookout for such occasion, morning and evening, when he can help others and perfect his humanity.