Do you feel guilty to try and find happiness when you know there are so many unhappy people in today’s world?
Do you feel guilty to indulge in things like personal style and fashion and brands when you know there are people in the world who have scarce clothing?
Do you feel guilty to avail all the resources God has provided to you when you know how many people live in shabby conditions?
If yes.
How do you tell yourself it’s okay.
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No I dont feel guilty. I feel for underprivileged people and where we can, my wife and I - we do our job in contributing. The world is not going to get better by feeling guilty. if I work hard and Allah has given me opportunity to reward my family with little luxuries of life, I would. But at the same time, we want to make sure that we help those who cant help themselves.
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^ so basically you help others to feel that satisfaction.
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There is no satisfaction. Its more of a responsibility. Satisfaction comes from the feelings of job well done. One person can never get that feeling as one person cannot change the financial situation of so many poor people.
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so what do i do? instead join the sad people group and sob?
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if that was true then no one wud have been happy...u can feel for the unhappy ppl...ampethize with them but u can't feel guilty. if i didn't do anything to cause their unhappiness so why should i be guilty...it sounds like the west feels guilty for what Hitler did to the Jewish people. :D
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I don’t feel guilty but you can feel sad sometimes that world is suffering so much.
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thank you for liking my jibberish…haN bilkul saHeeH farmaayaa aap ne…bas du’aa unke Haq meN hamesha karnii chaahiye…Allah sab sogawaaroN ko KhushgawaaraaN banaa de…aameen 
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you know khalil jibbran bhi gibberish hi kerta hai 
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If you're happy and you know it clap your hands...err wrong thread.
Seriously though, you can't let the world's poverty and hunger weigh you down. It's important to have some degree of compassion but you use that to help others out, not in being sad and feeling guilty for the imperfections of this world.
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Hunger and poverty is in the hands of Allah, and out of our control. we should do our share, whatever we can do from our heart and then theres things we must do to help like zakaat etc.
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You make a difference. That is what I am doing. I do feel for those who are poor or suffer at the hands of the fates. However I work hard at what I do and I am to make life better one very very very small step at a time. Be it recruiting a qualified man or woman for a job that will do them good, or convincing the Governor that bombing a village is not a good idea (no that has never happened but I hope one day it might). Ones own actions feeds ones sense of guilt.
You only feel guilt when you are not doing enough to help others around you. It is a balance of life. Ying and Yang. Why do you think we are forced to pay Zakat? It is the concept of charity begins at home. If you take zakat on the wealth you have amassed on a yearly basis you will be helping out a number of people in Pakistan easily.
I am happy in life because I have earned it. I am happy in life because I do what I love and because I have a loving family that supports me. No amount of poverty in the world can take that away from me.
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so what do i do? instead join the sad people group and sob?
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands...err wrong thread.
Seriously though, you can't let the world's poverty and hunger weigh you down. It's important to have some degree of compassion but you use that to help others out, not in being sad and feeling guilty for the imperfections of this world.
Like.
How is feeling guilty and crying and bemoaning the fate of the world going to change anything? Do something. To feel guilty and just lying around doing nothing is in a way being unthankful for what God's blessed you with in the first place.
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Do you feel guilty to try and find happiness when you know there are so many unhappy people in today's world?
Happiness itself is an illusion one creates for ones heart. Some feel happy in increrasing their materialistic resources, others achieve it by sacrificng their resources in bringing smile to other peoples face. I should be happy in remaining thankful to Allah (swt) for not putting me in such tough tests of life. Also trying my level best to bring happiness in the life of those whom I can (by the grace and mercy of Allah SWT), through any possible means. It can even be sharing of a motivational quote, if nothing else is in my control.
Do you feel guilty to indulge in things like personal style and fashion and brands when you know there are people in the world who have scarce clothing?
I feel guilty for not having contributed yet as much to their life as I should have, because they are more deserving of 'my' extra money then is my lavish lifestyle. It is never my money in the first place, because Allah (swt) is giving me more than I deserve so that I spare some for those who are in need. There are people who are a lot more hardworking than me and unfortunately get a lot less salary and other benefits than me. I would be answerable for the money that I spent with "Israaf". It is not my achievement that my parents supported me financially for a long time and Allah (swt) blessed me with good luck throughout my career, so why should I hesitate in sharing it with others.
p.s. There is a difference between "Fatwa" and "Taqwa". Buying limited good quality stuff in accordance to ones 'true needs' is not bad if the intention is to use it for a long time in order to save the money that one spends in buying cheap quality stuff time and again. The problem is when people waste money for show off and for buying stuff they don't 'actually' need. Ofcourse, the higher the Taqwa, the more one limits (sacrifices) one's personal needs for others. (such people are rare in our age. I wish Allah SWT make us like them). As mentioned in the Quran, you can't reach the highest degree of good deed unless you give in the way of Allah (swt) what you like the most (Allah swt expects very less from us, unlike Ismail (a.s) was demanded from Ibrahim (a.s))
Do you feel guilty to avail all the resources God has provided to you when you know how many people live in shabby conditions?
I feel guilty for not 'valuing' those resources and for not utilizing it in helping others as much as I should have. This guilt helps me in raising my level of sacrifice, (sadaqa) charity, repentence, thankfulness of Allah's blessings..... from time to time.
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no point feeling guilty when you can do something, you thank Allah swt for what you do have and pray for those in a worse situation.
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I like to look at empty plastic bags flying in the wind and cry.
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But then you also like to record your neighbour’s teenage daughter changing 
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And i heart the ganja
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PS: The fact that you understood it makes me love you a little bit more. 
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The Ganja and the Ganja (Or so your father thought)
The fact that you love me a little bit more makes me love you a whole lot more