You know, when you look at Nature; when you look at a bear: Before it hibernates, a bear must pursue the required amount of food that will allow it to hibernate for months. So, “the pursuit of happiness” to that creature is its ability to gain what it needs; that when it lies down, it is contented. And when “the pursuit of happiness” gets out of the animal, insect and crawling creature kingdom, and we speak of it in terms of “the human being,” then each creature is satisfied when it does, and is not hindered from doing according to its nature. That is the pursuit of happiness! What would make you happy? So, just put it on an individual plane: What would make you “happy”? You go to bed at night, and you dream about things that you would like to see different; you dream about things that you desire in your life, personally. And when you get up the next morning after sleep, you pursue that which will make you “happy” or “contented” in your life. The Holy Qur’an says Allah (God) “made the night for rest and sleep, and the day to rise up again,” seeking the bounty of your Lord—and if you are restrained from that pursuit, by some effort of somebody else to keep you from fulfilling your pursuit of happiness, then that hinders, thwarts and restrains you. And whatever does that is an enemy of you, provided that your pursuit of happiness does not destroy the happiness of others, and provided that your pursuit of happiness is in accord with The Nature of your creation, which is a Nature of Righteousness. If these “unalienable rights” are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we are endowed with the rights to this by The Creator, and any infringement on these rights, then, is “devil.” ~The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 05:57:17 +0000
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