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Happiness is the only goal on earth that all people without exception are seeking to attain.  Believers and unbelievers alike seek to be happy, but each party is using different methods. However, only believers can achieve genuine happiness.  All forms of happiness attained without a firm belief in God, the Almighty, are mere illusions. The […]

In part one we discussed bearing trials and tests with patience and understanding that nothing happens without the permission of God. “And with Him are the keys of the unseen; no one knows them except Him.  And He knows what is on the land and in the sea.  Not a leaf falls but that He

Before talking about how a believer behaves when ill or injured it is important to understand just what Islam teaches us about the life of this world.  Our existence here on earth is but a transient stop, on the way to our real life in the Hereafter.  Paradise or Hell will be our permanent abode.

When a child is born, it has with it a natural belief in God.  This natural belief is called in Arabic the “Fitrah”.[1]  If the child were left alone, it would grow up aware of God in His oneness, but all children are affected by the pressures of their environment whether directly or indirectly.  The Prophet,

We have to keep in mind that people will not get from this world except what God has already written for them, this is the bottom line.  After all that running around, staying up late at night, being a workaholic a person will only get that which God has already destined for him or her. 

Going back to the story of Moses and Khidr, after they crossed the river they came across a child, and Khidr intentionally killed that child.  Moses asked Khidr how he could possibly do such a thing?  The child was innocent and Khidr simply killed him!  Khidr told Moses that the child had righteous parents and

We have so many problems, so many obstacles that they are like illnesses.  If we try to deal with them one by one we will never get through them.  We need to identify them, put them in some general categories and tackle them as a group as opposed to trying to tackle each individual obstacle

The topic of inner peace addresses a universal need.  There is nobody on this planet that does not desire inner peace.  It is not a desire that is new to our time; rather, it is something that everybody has been searching for throughout the ages, regardless of color, creed, religion, race, nationality, age, sex, wealth,

Real happiness and peace can be found in submitting to the commands of the Creator and the Sustainer of this world.  God has said in the Quran: “Truly, in remembering God do hearts find rest.” (Quran 13:28) On the other hand, the one who turns away from the Quran will have a life of hardship