Qur’an as the source of guidance assists human beings to worship of Allah. Qur’an as the sources of human life arranges every aspect of it. Life in the world is just temporary, the eternal life in the beyond here after. So that, the main aim of life is achieve the happiness in both of in the world and also in here after.
Therefore, this paper focuses on the concept of happiness according to Hamka in tafsi>r of al-Azha<r. Hamka explains on happiness clearly and deeply. And it will be different by the discussion of Hamka, because he has ever lived in the prison. According to him, Happiness is the main topic of life. Every people want to happy trough many ways, both of the wrong and right ways.
The researcher uses the library research and becoming Al-Azha<r tafsi>r as the object of this thesis use the tahlily methode and Sufism and also approach. It’s because Hamka is one of the “Tasawuf specialist” therefore, the explanation of every chapter use the Sufism approach even there are some other date to support his opinion.
After analyst some dates of happiness. The research find some result of it, there are: the dividing of happiness is divided into three parts: Religious happiness, Righteous happiness, and Wealthy happiness. All of them is support each other to escape the eternal happiness which is promised by God.
Hamka in his tafsi>r use the certain term which he explains the happiness, there are Haya<tan Al-T{ayyibah, Aflaha, Sa'a<dah,Fa<za, Faraha, Masru>ra<n. From these terms, Hamka has the new formula about the concept of happiness. The concept of happiness is divided into three kinds, religious happiness, righteous happiness, and wealthy of happiness.
Every people have the certain characteristic to achieve the happiness. It is because the happiness according to one people and other is different. In contrary, in the reality on social human life is proof that the charity of happiness and the property of happiness cannot solve and get the eternal happiness. Most of people look for the God, to the credence, to the faith as the religiosity of happiness as the eternal happiness after beyond of life.