الفارابي وموقفه من السعادة من منظور فلسفي

Abstract EN

The search for happiness is a desired goal for many people with the many disturbances and causes of misery, and in the past, philosophers, headed by plato, sought to portray the “utopia” in the hope of reaching “happiness.” where the expansion of the Islamic state and its embrace with other civilizations and the development of the nature of the Islamic society led to the emergence of the urgent need for the presence of Muslim thinkers and philosophers, and Islamic thinkers played a prominent role in political and legal thought, and they worked hard to bring nature and human life closer and theoretically approach, so they worked to move from imaginative meditation of nature and reality, and from religious prophecy to the rational understanding of existence and its interpretation their breakthroughs in research were the result of the need for knowledge and not of the need for faith.

they were the first to raise the basic issues of the state, law and politics and found many solutions to them.

philosophy is one of the most important things that one can access to morals and beautiful and benign qualities, and philosophy was in them matters and issues that need to be studied in order to show the most correct ones.

among these issues was the issue of happiness and the words of the philosophers in it.

al-Farabi had valuable and great speeches about all of the philosophers who preceded him, and then the research aims to show and clarify the strength of al-Farabi’s personality, explaining the importance of the issue of happiness and studying it in terms of the sayings of the philosophers about it.

the historical method was relied upon by defining happiness, its types and evidence for it and comparing the things that are true and corrupt in happiness in order to arrive at the most correct in the meaning of happiness in philosophy, and the research concluded that the Arab philosophers were not imitating western philosophers in everything, but rather they took from them what was in accordance with the book and the Sunnah, as well as the status and importance of al-Farabi the philosopher, and that he had a special influence and personality in Islamic philosophy, and that Muslim philosophers depended on the Qur'an and the words of the messenger, may god’s prayers and peace be upon him.