The Eighteenth Type: Happiness

It is a pleasure accompanied with deeds of showing joy. The blameworthy happiness is to be pleased with the forbidden. As Allah, glorified be He, said: {Verily Allah does not like those who exult} (Q. 28:76).

Know that the deeds are accompanied with happiness and that which is done to show pleasure. If it is forbidden by itself, like singing, then it is not allowed absolutely, neither to attend it nor to look at it. However, if it was a permissible action, like playing with horses, for showing happiness of a forbidden reason, like the victory of the oppressors against the righteous people, then it is judged as abominable and forbidden. It is not allowed either to look at it or to attend it because of its ugliness. But, if happiness was because of an allowed reason, like when righteous people play with horses not for learning jihad, or when they appoint someone to learn riding the horses for them; or for a bounty that occurred, like the victory of the righteous people, then there will be no sin in it, whether by attending or watching it.