Saʿāda

سعادةsaʿāda

Preferred translation: felicity
Technical sense: perfected human end

General Technical Meaning

Saʿāda is the good sought for its own sake and not as a means to anything greater.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In the reviewed al-Manāmāt classification, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī treats saʿāda as the human path and end associated with balanced natural constitution and, for intermediate cases, successful education. The passage relates it to ultimate perfection while preserving degrees and contingent formation; it does not make felicity a merely present feeling or a fate detached from formation.

Source: Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Three — Effects Issuing from the Human Being by Will Differ in Strength and Weakness · passage 1
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Five — On Good and Evil, the Beneficial and the Harmful · passage 1
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eight — How Knowledge Is Acquired by the Human Being · passage 5
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Nine: On the State of Human Individuals with Respect to Their Degrees · passage 2
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 1
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 19
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eleven — On the States of the Consummate Wretched · passage 3
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eleven — On the States of the Consummate Wretched · passage 4
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eleven — On the States of the Consummate Wretched · passage 5
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Fifteen — On Prophethood and Messengership and What Follows Them of Revelation, Inspiration, the Veridical Dream, the Miracle, the Preternatural, and the Charism · passage 1
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Fifteen — On Prophethood and Messengership and What Follows Them of Revelation, Inspiration, the Veridical Dream, the Miracle, the Preternatural, and the Charism · passage 2
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Baqarah 2:124
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Wāqiʿa 56:11–56
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · Author’s Introduction

Canonical address: /glossary/saada/