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Some Secrets of the Qur'an: Only in the Remembrance of God Do Hearts Find Satisfaction

Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. God Answers Everyone's Prayers
  3. God Increases His Blessings on Those Who are Grateful
  4. Secrets of Submission to One's Fate and Putting One's Trust in God
  5. There is Good in Every Event
  6. There is Surely Ease with Every Difficulty
  7. God Obscures the Comprehension of Disbelievers
  8. God Bestows Understanding on Those Who Fear Him
  9. Those Who Do Good Meet Goodness
  10. There is Light in Believers' Faces, but Disgrace in Those of Disbelievers
  11. The Secret that God Erases Bad Actions
  12. Divine Purposes in Spending in God's Way
  13. The Effect of Good Actions and Good Words
  14. God Certainly Helps Those Who Help His Religion
  15. Quarrelling Causes Loss of Strength
  16. Only in the Remembrance of God Do Hearts Find Satisfaction
  17. The Cunning of Satan is Weak
  18. Obeying the Majority Misleads Man from the Right Path
  19. Secrets in the Expansion and Diminishing of Blessings
  20. Obedience to the Messenger is Obedience to God
  21. A Small Group of Believers Can Overcome a Vast Majority of Disbelievers
  22. God Makes His Religion Supreme When One Worships Him Alone
  23. The Life of the World is in Fact Very Brief
  24. God Casts Dread into the Hearts of Disbelievers
  25. Wisdom and Decisive Speaking are Blessings from God
  26. Man Will Also Account for His Thoughts and Intentions
  27. It is God Who Places Love in People's Hearts
  28. The Deaths of Disbelievers and Believers Will Not be the Same
  29. Prayer Keeps Man Away from Evil
  30. Those Who are Killed in the Way of God are Not Dead
  31. God is the Giver of Honour
  32. Secrets of Finding the Straight Path
  33. Man's Inner Self Commands Evil Acts
  34. Secrets of Abundance and the Wealth Given to People
  35. The Secret of Why God Does Not Immediately Punish the Disbelievers
  36. Conclusion

All men living on earth seek ways to attain real happiness. Hopes are pinned on a goal of attaining happiness. Some seek happiness in an opulent life style, some in a prestigious career, a good marriage, plastic surgery, college admission. Once these goals are attained, however, whatever happiness results is usually transitory. Or often there is no joy or satisfaction at all in achieving the goal. However, there has been no one on earth who has ever attained true happiness through these methods. There are many issues that bother or disquiet even someone who believes the goal of complete happiness has been achieved.

True happiness, peace, pleasure and ease can only be found in the remembrance of God. God relates this fact in a verse as follows:

Those who believe and whose hearts find peace in the remembrance of God. Only in the remembrance of God can the heart find peace.

Surat ar-Ra'd: 28

This is a very important secret that God reveals to mankind in the Qur'an. Unaware of this fact, many people spend their lives under the delusion that worldly gifts would bring satisfaction. As if they would never die and meet the day of reckoning, they greedily strive to possess the values pertaining to this world.

Yet this is a great delusion. Nothing possessed in this world can bring true peace and happiness. Only believers who are sincerely devoted to God and who are cognisant of God's mercy, compassion and protection over them can attain the peaceful state of the heart. God grants this relief on the heart of the person who sees the evidences of God's creation and remembers Him at all times. Therefore it is vain to seek for ease or peace and happiness by any other means.