{"id":9238,"date":"2020-06-26T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2020-06-28T20:39:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:39:49","slug":"real-happiness-and-inner-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/real-happiness-and-inner-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Happiness and Inner Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<br \/>\n\u201cTruly, in remembering God do hearts find rest.\u201d (Quran 13:28)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the one who turns away from the Quran will have a life of hardship in this world. God has said:<br \/>\n\u201cBut whoever turns away from the Quran,[1] he will have a hard life, and We will raise him up blind on the Day of Judgment.\u201d (Quran 20:124)<\/p>\n<p>This may explain why some people commit suicide while they enjoy the material comfort money can buy. For example, look at Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam), formerly a famous pop singer who used to earn sometimes more than $150,000 a night. After he converted to Islam, he found true happiness and peace, which he had not found in material success.[2]<\/p>\n<p>Footnotes:<br \/>\n[1] i.e. neither believes in the Quran nor acts on its orders.<br \/>\n[2] The present mailing address of Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), in case you would like to ask him about his feelings after he converted to Islam, is: 2 Digswell Street, London N7 8JX, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.islamland.com\/eng\/articles\/real-happiness-and-inner-peace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: \u201cTruly, in remembering God do hearts find rest.\u201d (Quran 13:28) On the other hand, the one who turns away from the Quran will have a life of hardship &#8230; <a title=\"Real Happiness and Inner Peace\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/real-happiness-and-inner-peace\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Real Happiness and Inner Peace\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introducing-islam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Site Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/author\/admin2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"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: \u201cTruly, in remembering God do hearts find rest.\u201d (Quran 13:28) On the other hand, the one who turns away from the Quran will have a life of hardship&hellip;","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcT0IL-2p0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8374,"url":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/de\/wahre-freude-und-innerer-friede\/","url_meta":{"origin":9238,"position":0},"title":"Wahre Freude und Innerer Friede","author":"Site Admin","date":"06\/20\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"True joy and inner peace arise through submission to the orders of the creator and sustainer of this world. 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