Where does the enjoyment and pleasure of life lie?

Question

So, that is how life is. If you desire the pleasure and enjoyment of life, animate your life with belief, and adorn it with religious obligations. Maintain it by abstaining from sins. As for the fear-some reality of death, which is demonstrated by instances of death every day, in every place and time, I shall explain it to you with a parable in the same way as I explained it to some other youths.

Let us suppose a gallows has been set up here in front of our eyes. Beside it is a lottery office, one which gives tickets for truly high prizes. We are here ten people, and willingly or unwillingly, shall certainly be invited there. They may call us (since the appointed time is unknown) at any moment, and say either, “Come and mount the gallows for execution!” or “A prize ticket worth millions of dollars has come up for you; come and collect it!” While we are waiting for either call, two people suddenly turn up. One of them is a scantily dressed woman, beautiful and alluring. She holds in her hand and offers some apparently very delicious, but in fact poisonous, sweets, which she wants us to eat. The other is an honest, solemn man. He enters behind the woman, and says:

“I have brought you a talisman, a lesson. If you study it, and if you do not eat the sweets, you will be saved from the gallows. With this talisman, you will receive your ticket for the matchless prize. You see with your own eyes that those who eat the sweets inevitably mount the gallows, and furthermore, until they mount them, they suffer dreadful stomach pains from the poison of the sweets. As for those who receive the ticket for the large prize, it seems that they too mount the gallows. But millions of witnesses testify that they are not hanged on the gallows, they use them as a step to enter the prize arena easily. So, look from the windows! The highest officials, the high-ranking persons concerned with this business announce with loud voices, ‘Just as you see clearly with your own eyes those mounting the gallows to be hanged, so also know with utmost certainty that those with the talisman receive the ticket for the prize.’”

As in the parable, the dissolute, religiously forbidden pleasures of youth, which are like poisonous sweets, are the cause of losing belief—and belief is the ticket to an eternal treasury and a document for everlasting happiness. Those who indulge in them are subject to death, which is like the gallows, and to the tribulations of the grave, which is the door to eternal darkness. The appointed hour of death is unknown, therefore, its executioner, not differentiating between young and old, may come at any time to cut off your head. Give up the religiously forbidden pleasures (which are like the poisonous sweets) and acquire the Qur’anic talisman (belief and performing religious obligations). One hundred and twenty-four thousand Prophets, upon them be peace, together with innumerable saints, have proclaimed that you will get to the treasury of eternal happiness if you do so. They have also shown the signs and evidences of it.

Answer 1

My Contentment lies in the happiness of My God with me. If u just try to be humble, u will never be unsatisfied.
I would like to give 2 little example of mine for ur inspiration.
Some 3-4 years ago, even i used to offer my prayers regularly, but if sometime i got late, then i didn't care for that. But when i found / realize myself near to my God, then i made it a rule of mine to not to miss any prayer. Now by the blessing of God, If i get late in offering a prayer, my heart just feels unsatified until i offer my prayers. this is the contentment.
2nd case. if u just make urself humble.
last month i had to attend a wedding anniversery. it was so hot. when i reached there and intended to enter the hall, the security guard stopped me for checking. I, suddenly became angry at him. he just apologized and let me in. when i came back to home, i just felt in my mind that i had done something wrong with the guard. i was unable to take sleep the whole night. as the morning time came, i got up and went to the same security guard and apologized for whatever i had said to him. he took me in and offer a cup of tea. then i felt satisfied.
now u can better guess, where does ur satisfaction lies.
U must encourage to be postive, to be optimistic. just try to make your surrounding happy, try to give more then to take. respect ur elders, give proper time to ur friends & family. when u will do it, God will be happy at you, and what can make u unsatified when God is with you!

Answer 2

For there is none righteous, no not one. There's nothing we can do to get into heaven. No ritual or religious obligations can cleanse us from our unrighteousness. The only way to heaven is through believing in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for us on the cross. Jesus is the only way.

http://www.chick.com/information/general/salvation.asp

Answer 3

The Answer my Friend is Blowing in the Wind,The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind.

Answer 4

Wow!! Settle down, life is supposed to be enjoyed!! Questions like that only you can answer. But G-d wants you to enjoy all that he has provided you.

Answer 5

I lies within yourself, if you like yourself and are content then the world is beautiful to you. It doesn't take two to make someone happy, happiness is within your own heart

Answer 6

In the Universe we know.

Answer 7

I was made for God's pleasure. I find my pleasure in Him.

Answer 8

Knowing God

Answer 9

in the bedroom