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]

{أَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ ...

(60) (60) Zakāh expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed for it[487] and for bringing hearts together [for Islām] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allāh and for the [stranded] traveler - an obligation [imposed] ...

(1) (1) They ask you, [O Muḥammad], about the bounties [of war]. Say, "The [decision concerning] bounties is for Allāh and the Messenger." So fear Allāh and amend that which is between you and obey Allāh and His Messenger, if you should be believers.

(2) (2) The believers are only those ...

(57) (57) O you who have believed, take not those who have taken your religion in ridicule and amusement among the ones who were given the Scripture before you nor the disbelievers as allies. And fear Allāh, if you should [truly] be believers.

(58) (58) And when you call to prayer, they take ...

(104) (104) And Moses said, "O Pharaoh, I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds

(105) (105) [Who is] obligated not to say about Allāh except the truth. I have come to you with clear evidence from your Lord, so send with me the Children of Israel."[391]

[391]- i.e., free them from ...

Q: I would like to ask how authentic the book Nahj al-Balaagha is and what your opinion of it is?

A: Praise be to Allaah.

The book Nahj al-Balaaghah is one of the books that are attributed to Ameer al-Mu'mineen 'Ali ibn Abi Taalib (may Allah be pleased with him), but it contains many things ...

The Qur'anic Cure

By Sayed Qutb

{We bestow of the Qur'an from on high what serves as a healing and a blessing to true believers, while it only adds to the ruin of the evildoers.

Yet when We bestow Our blessings on man, he turns his back and draws arrogantly aside, and when he is afflicted by evil ...