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oshanloo’s text “A Comparison of Western and Islamic Conceptions of Happiness.” In Muslim culture, following rules of holy book Quran is very important for individuals. The reason of that fact is because all of that rules were written by God. People in Muslim culture believed that if they would follow rules of God, they would benefit themselves. Having faith would be good way of developing well-being. Example from (Joshanloo 2013) would be. “This understanding of religion indicates what virtue amounts to in the Islamic faith: to submit to the supreme power and be afraid of him. This fear is believed to lead to more complete submission. Only through submission to the will of God and by obedience to his law ”can one achieve true peace and enjoy lasting purity” (Husain 1998, p. 282).”
Enjoying the life was another idea that both texts had in common. Deci and Ryan (2006) in their text told that eudaimonic concept of well-being was getting pleasure from life. Every individual would understand the word “pleasure” differently from each other. For some it would be buying something that made them feel happy. For another person it would be going out somewhere or eating something, and for some it would be honoring parents just like what I said in my last analytical summary. Because of this fact, some people chose not proper “pleasure” in life to develop well-being. Mohsen Joshanloo presented also an idea that could be applied to getting pleasure in life. Example of that sentence is “Muslims should not choose for themselves the evil pleasures of this world as the goal of their life (Q 7:169),” (Joshanloo 2013). This idea was taken from Muslim’s holy book Quran. Idea that I previously presented had some similarity with Joshanloo’s. Both of them suggested individuals to be careful while choosing best way of enjoying life and developing well-being.
We should always be careful with our health. Without it we would never fully enjoy our life, which means we would never fully have well-being. This text discussed ways of developing well-being which were taken from texts “Hedonia, Eudaimonia, and well-being: an introduction” Deci and Ryan (2006) and Johasnloo (2013) “A Comparison of Western and Islamic Conceptions of Happiness.” These ideas presented in this text were some ways of developing well-being, which also showed importance of well-being fo