Avicenna believes that happiness is in achieving the intellectual pleasures...
Avicenna believes that happiness is in achieving the intellectual pleasures, and since these pleasures have different ranks, happiness will also have different ranks (Bureau of Houzeh and university cooperation, 1993). In his short essay of "science of the Dispositions", Ibn Sina begins by acknowledging that God is "the One Who enriches the soul of the man who is devoted to His virtues and the means whereby he may acquire then for himself .
"It is a requisite in human life ", he continues, "that he who would attain perfection must seek happiness in this world and in the next. It is incumbent upon him, moreover, to…
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