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What is success? How to define it?

If I were to ask you, " how do you define success? " What would you say? You'd probably say: " a huge abundance of wealth, multiple properties, luxury items, the ability to travel wherever and whenever ". To be fair, I wouldn't blame you if you thought this way. We as humans have our desires and we always desire the satisfaction of possession. That is, to own.  Question is, how do Ahlul Bayt(as) define it? Are we defining success in its true and proper sense? Is it any wonder that stress rates, suicidal rates and so on are more prevalent in first world countries as opposed to third world countries?  Why? Well according to the dictionary, the actual definition of Success is:  the accomplishment of an aim or purpose . It’s not " the possession of a vast amount of materialistic things " it's simply an accomplishment. You see, if we continue to place our perspective in that success is defined by extrinsic gains, when will we ...