我最近看了一部名为《Happy》的纪录片，内容关于什么能给人带来幸福与快乐。这部纪录片采访了许多心理学家、神经学家和其他“幸福专家”，还调查了世界上许多不同的文化，但值得注意的是，它没有包括任何一个穆斯林国家或文化。这部时长一个半小时的纪录片，只用了十秒钟提到宗教能给“一些”人带来幸福，却用了三十秒讲述宗教实际上是世界上许多痛苦和苦难的根源。

I recently watched a documentary called “Happy” about what brings people happiness and joy. The documentary interviewed many psychologists, neurologists, and other “happiness experts” as well as surveyed many different cultures around the world (but notably did not include a single Muslim nation or culture). The 1.5 hour long documentary had just 10 seconds on the fact that religion brings “some” people happiness and it included 30 seconds on how religion actually is a source of much pain and suffering in the world.

最终,这部纪录片得出结论:幸福在于行善、服务他人、感恩、知足、追寻意义、与家人和邻里保持联系、不过分看重金钱和物质财富、冥想并花时间静心反思,以及亲近大自然。

Ultimately, the documentary concludes that happiness is about being charitable, serving others, being grateful, being content, pursuing meaning, connecting with family and neighbors, not overvaluing money and material possessions, meditating and spending time on quiet reflection, and spending time in nature.

我心想，这些东西在伊斯兰教以及一般的有组织宗教中都有对应之处。人们难道没有意识到这一点吗？如果幸福是目标，而这些是有助于幸福的因素，那么有组织的宗教，尤其是伊斯兰教，因为它协调了这些因素，并在圣行（Sunnah）中将其臻于完美的体现，因此显然是人们应当如何安排生活的答案。

I thought to myself, all these things have analogs in Islam and organized religion generally. Do people not make that connection? If happiness is the goal and these are the factors that are conducive to happiness, then organized religion and especially Islam, which harmonizes these factors and brings them to their perfect expression in the Sunnah, is the clear answer for how people should lead their lives.

唯一的代价是信仰真主，因此即便是追求享乐的现代性，也宁愿牺牲幸福，以避免臣服于更高的权威，转而用一系列空洞的陈词滥调来定义幸福。这些陈词滥调或许抓住了幸福的形式，却遗漏了真正幸福的本质与源泉。

The only cost for that happiness is believing in Allah, and so even hedonistic modernity will sacrifice happiness to avoid submitting to a higher authority, preferring instead to define happiness in terms of an assortment of hollow truisms that may capture the form but miss the essence and source of true happiness.