The world in which we live is full of wonders and unexpected events. Our lives are always in a state of perpetual turmoil caused by the waves of those events. Pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sadness, war and peace, unity and discord, prosperity and misery, justice and discrimination are all part of this world in which we live.Life is therefore like a restless sea where not a single person is secure from the violent waves on the surface of this deep ocean. Today men have achieved the comfort and welfare that was never in the reach of the people of the past. The remarkable progress and advancements in science, technology, transport, communication and others were not known to our ancestors. The human of today have learned way to employ nature’s various forces to his benefits. However, despite these great achievements in various academic fields and in spite of possessing the required means essential for a peaceful and stable life, man today failed to provide for himself the security and peace that are the basic of a prosperous life. Why? The academic is suffering from stress, anxieties and other diseases. Why? This materialistic life has kept this intelligent man away from his real purpose of existence. Why?Anxiety has taken an upper hand and stress is a common problem in our society .One of the factors for such diseases to appear in the society is greediness. In a society where people thoughts rotate around the axis of materialism, where wealth and passing material comforts are considered criteria of prosperity and misfortune and where everyone is always after the satisfaction of this inner urge, life is certainly full of continuous stress and nervousness.Is there a solution?
“Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds – they will have the Gardens of Paradise as a lodging.” (Q’ 18: 107)
Similarly, the Holy Bible reports the words of Jesus’ brother, James, saying:
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead also.” (James 2:26) Interestingly, James (4:7) also referred to the meaning of Islam that is stated,. “Submit yourselves therefore to God.”
Like the needle of the compass faces North when at rest, so the heart of the believer faces in the direction of Almighty Most High’s obedience and pleasure. In the obedience of Our Creator Most High do we find our peace, contentment and happiness. When a compass is moved or shaken, we observe how the needle is disturbed and begins to move restlessly this way and that way – as if agitated. When it is placed down, it continues to move about until finally it finds its rest in the direction of North.