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Happiness is impossible without security. Imam Ali says that every happiness needs security. The Qur'an refers to the bounty of security in many of its verses: "So let them serve the Lord of this House, who has fed them against hunger and secured the...

Happiness is impossible without security. Imam Ali...

The prophet of Islam says of the one who solves a problem of the believers that God will solve seventy-two of his problems in the world and in the hereafter. According to Imam Sadeq, "Make your (religious) brother happy, so that God may make you happ...

The prophet of Islam says of the one who solves a ...

Loneliness makes one annoyed. Man likes to be with others and communicate with them. This is an emotional need. Friendship can save man from loneliness and make him happy. The happiness of having friends occurs when one can find a friend who is simil...

Loneliness makes one annoyed. Man likes to be with...

Prayer and worship of God can remove sorrow and cause happiness. Imam Sadeq recommends that when a worldly grief overcomes someone, he should perform ablution, go into a mosque, and pray to God (Akbari, 2006, p.189). The ultimate goal of man's creati...

Prayer and worship of God can remove sorrow and ca...

One of the original needs of all human beings is to be with God. God blew His spirit into man; thus, if man is not connected to God, he will not enjoy a happy life. The Qur'an says, "Those who believe, their hearts being at rest in God's remembrance,...

One of the original needs of all human beings is t...

Faith and belief in God can be considered as one of the causes of happiness. The Qur'an says in this regard: "those who believe, and have not confounded their belief with evildoing-to them belongs the true security; they are rightly guided" (An'am, 6...

Faith and belief in God can be considered as one o...

One of the ways in which humans can achieve happiness is asceticism. The real meaning of asceticism is "not wanting," not "not having". Real asceticism does not want worldly things to the extent that one becomes so attached to them that he becomes so...

One of the ways in which humans can achieve happin...

It is of the most basic and fundamental religious beliefs that the world flows on the basis of divine wisdom, and there is not even one phenomenon or event that has no reason. Thus, it is important for us to know wisdom and expediencies of events. A ...

It is of the most basic and fundamental religious ...

The prophet of Islam said that (real and spiritual) knowledge is a light that God places in the hearts of those whom He likes. It is evident that it is a (faithful) heart that deserves such knowledge. The prophet of Islam says that if I spend a day i...

The prophet of Islam said that (real and spiritual...

We should know the world as it is. An easy life is the result of the cognition of the world. The prophet of Islam said that if you knew of the world what I know, your souls would feel complacency from it. He also said in his prayers, "0 God! show the...

We should know the world as it is. An easy life is...

Happiness is the major concept of every time and place, and has always been emphasized in different schools by different scholars. It can be investigated from different points of view. Investigation of happiness from the religious, philosophical and ...

Happiness is the major concept of every time and p...

Iqbal gives his account of the possibility of religion in the last lecture in the reconstruction entitled "Is Religion Possible?" For Iqbal, religion is not something that is isolated from philosophy. He advocates an integration of the two, sometimes...

Iqbal gives his account of the possibility of reli...

Muhammad Iqbal is also critical of Ghazzali's characterization of knowledge. He thought that Ghazzali was mistaken in giving up reason and thought and embracing mystic experience as the only exclusive way the totally infinite could be revealed to an ...

Muhammad Iqbal is also critical of Ghazzali's char...

The first major critic of philosophy in the Islamic tradition was Abu Hamid ibn Muhammad al-Ghazzali (1058-1111 CE). Ghazzali felt that no formulation of an epistemology based on human reason could possibly account reasonably for the metaphysical exi...

The first major critic of philosophy in the Islami...

There have been arguments presented for the existence of God which are non-analytical, and do not rely an purely logical or empirical premises. There is a strong strand within classical Islamic philosophy, beginning with Al-Ghazzali, to strongly put ...

There have been arguments presented for the existe...

Islamic philosophers of the middle ages did not address this problem in any direct fashion. This maybe because in the context of Muslim thought, the existence of God was a prerequisite. In fact, the aim of the philosophers was to prove the existence ...

Islamic philosophers of the middle ages did not ad...

The primary difficulty with the problem of evil is resolving the apparent conflict between the reality of evil in the world and the claim that God is: Omniscient -- All knowing Omnipotent &endash; All powerful and Wholly Good One version of the free ...

The primary difficulty with the problem of evil is...

The Problem of Evil One of the major arguments proposed against the existence of God in contemporary western philosophy is the problem of evil. It is based upon the inability to reconcile the magnitude of evil in the world with the all-loving nature ...

The Problem of Evil One of the major arguments pro...

The modern form of the ontological argument in modern western philosophy was made famous by Anselm and Descartes. The argument rests on the premise that existence is a predicate that a being could have or lack. A summary of Anselm's argument is as fo...

The modern form of the ontological argument in mod...

Kant raises a powerful objection to any theory that claims to grasp knowledge of God. He claims that in terms of knowledge there can be no jump from the physical to the metaphysical. Kant distinguishes between noumanal and phenomenal objects. The nou...

Kant raises a powerful objection to any theory tha...

The version of the argument from design is best known in contemporary philosophy as presented by William Paley (1805) in his Natural Theology. He presents us with an analogy of a watch. Suppose that while walking in a deserted remote location one com...

The version of the argument from design is best kn...