The basic principle of happiness

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The truth is what you have been running away from all your life. Be brave. The truth is not comfortable, even when you accept it, it will mean hard work, but you will be free. You will see beauty. You will see the world with new eyes. Be brave. Be honest. Be humble, because your pride has made you miserable and robot like. Your pride has filled you with fear of other's opinions, of doing what you want to do, of what you really want to be like. I give you this long build up in the hope that there may be a chance you will read on when you read the truth. That you will have a tiny bit of patience to keep reading so that I can explain further. Here it is:

God. The world is as it is because it has forgotten God.

Let me explain. Religion has been hijacked by politicians, who call themselves Monks, Gurus, Priests, Rabbis and Imams. They use their followers as property, less interested in their welfare than in controlling them.

There is hope though. The world is already uniting, it was always going to happen. We have only a few years to go.

Why is God the solution, why does it matter if we forget God or not? Does God even exits? Why does God not do anything to solve the problems of the world?

We already know the answers to all these questions. We run from them because we think first about what would make our lives easy now, not what would make us all happy tomorrow. The truth is within us, quiet, under the racket that is greed, anger and hate. The answers to those questions? Why does not God just solve everything? Beauty is in us being transformed so that we solve it. Does God exist? Yes, we know God exists, just as the computer in front of you has a creator. The most famous scientists ever know, Newton and Einstein, believed in God, because every bit of the world shouts out "I have a creator." Yet there are a few he say God does not exist, think, who are these people? Finally, why do we need to remember God? Because there is a life  out there, we can barely comprehend it because we barely know life. We have wings yet we crawl, rubbing our faces along the ground because we don't even know we have legs. And God is the light, brilliant as a star, who brings us out of every kind of darkness and into light.

When we deny God, we deny the first brick of truth. After that, excepting one truth will not save you because it will only be a half truth, detached from the bit that matters. We are spiritual beings far more than physical. Why is it that we seem to need more than food and sleep to be happy? What is this thing called love? It is the attraction of our soul to the Exalted Being. When we forget God we begin to live a lie, one lie on top of the other. You drink alcohol because you suffer. You drink alcohol because the reality you have created makes you miserable.

God has always taught us the path of peace. Each religion was from God. But then it was hijacked by our egos, and we forgot God. Islam is nothing but the a path to God. Islam reminds us that we all from God. We are all one. God has again brought to us a Reminder, the Spiritual Reformer of the Age, prophesied by all religions of the World, clearly in their books, know to their followers:

http://www.alislam.org/topics/messiah/index.php

and to finish, a bit about God:

http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=1859&region=E1&CR=EN,E2&CR=EN,E2

and a clip I like from V from Vendetta (it shouldn't be a surprise from you that truth is all around you, we humans, are by nature light and emit truth, however much we bury it):

http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=1859&region=E1&CR=EN,E2&CR=EN,E2

Am I (the author) deliriously happy?

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No, is the answer to the title of this blog. No, I am not deliriously happy. I hope that first sentence doesn't put you off reading my blog!

I constantly risk my happiness for the sake of others, by giving time to others when I'm tired, I suffer because I feel other's pain and generally keep my self very busy, day and night, trying to help people.

I suppose a good way explain how I feel is similar to the response I read from an article about the recent Turkish earthquake. A person who saved a two week year old from the rubble of the earthquake said something like "even if you gave me piles of money you could not make me more happy." I suppose there are two types of happiness: the crazy wild drunken type or the deep and more beautiful type.

I'm not deliriously happy but I am happy. I couldn't live my life any other way. There are times when I am very happy. Those are times when my struggles to achieve something good finally come through. Mostly I have a sense of peace and I have no worries really (although most people in precarious sitution, might well be). Other times, I can be sad. Often due to my spiritual weakness, though these become lessons from which I find greater freedom yet gives me a greater understanding of other people's sadness.

It may seem strange to some people that I write a blog on happiness yet do not say that I am super happy. The simple answer I can give to that is it does not bother me so much that I am not drunk with joy. What matters to me simply is that I can see, very clearly, that the world is in desperate need for the solutions and beauty of Islam, to develop the a connection with God, who's light is a like a glittering star, and I will offer it.

What's special about this article

This post is part of an article on Islam and the Happiness Revolution, the contents page for which is here:  http://islamandthehappinessrevolution.blogspot.com/p/contents.html

This article, on happiness, is different because it is closer to the source of all truth, that is God. I write this article as a follower of the Spritual Guide of this age, promised by all the great religions of the world. More about the Spiritual Guide (his main titles being Spiritul Reformer/Promised Messiah) here: http://www.alislam.org/topics/messiah/index.php

Because of my connection with the Promised Messiah, after reading his writings and that of his successors, I am able to express far greater logic and truths than other people, that will resonate, even shudder, honest souls.

If you have love for humanity and the creatures of the world, who are suffering because of our actions and their own, because of which you are looking for the "truth" that will give us long lasting solutions to these problems, then you will find it here.

I pray that these claims are not empty boasts but the truth.

The Happiness Revolution!

My main, most comprehensive article on happiness, will be made of lots of posts, the contents page for which are here:

http://islamandthehappinessrevolution.blogspot.com/p/contents.html

or just click the "Contents to my main article on happiness" on the top of this blog.

Life of Muhammad Chp 7 - Emigration to Abyssinia

I only put these videos so that God may want to pour so much love into the hearts of anyone watching this that they may see Islam will change all our lives.

Life of Muhammad Chp 3 - The Prophet Recieves his first Revelation

A story of incredible love and hope for a better world.

If you watch the videos for entire book (Life of Muhammad, free to download here) you will know the spirit of Islam. It takes a few chapter to really get into, well it did for me, but after that I didn't want to put the book down. It has since been the basis of my entire life.

Homosexuality - love for all, hatred for none

One the many common misunderstandings about Islam is that Islam teaches people to hate people who are homosexual - not true. Islam is a message of love. God is loving.

I have found many people who are homosexual/bisexual to be interested in Islam and I would never want to get in their way in learning more about it. I write this short article to not only encourage gay/lesbians to look into Islam but also to create an awareness amongst Muslims who may have harboured hate for anyone who is homosexual, that hate for anyone is against the spirit of Islam.

Islam does discourage homosexuality. Every guidance offered by Islam, which is based on the deepest understanding of human psychology and physiology, is for you own happiness. Which means, although it may not seem so at first, my friends who are lesbian/gay, homosexual behaviour is not inductive to your happiness (sorry for using the word "inductive", I don't normally talk/write is such a posh/formal way... just a bit late and it's the first word that comes to my head). Islam works on a principle that guides people towards tendencies that are healthy, make you happy and develop your spirituality. Homosexual relationships tend be transient, not always, but often, and so bad for mental health. Just like drinking alcohol, can be good for you, but, by in large, is not. Sexually transmitted diseases like AIDs are prevalent in homosexual relationships, nature's way of saying such behaviour is not healthy. It may not be good for children to be raised by two mums or dads, because nature requires a child to be born through heterosexual sex, meaning that involvement from both sexes are necessary for good mental health.

I would also like to Islam does not deny that homosexual feelings occur, in fact, it suggests they can be developed if, especially in an age when you are going through puberty, when your mind and feelings are being developed, if you often look at the genitals of a person of the same sex, explore sexual parts or have a sexual experience with a person of the same sex, you can be inclined to homosexuality.

Finally, I quickly want to mention that if animals have been shown to be homosexual, that doesnt prove that it is good for animals or humans to do it. Animals can be put in situations, either by diet, the nature of their captivity or posssibly some other circumstances, where they indulge in homosexual behaviour.

Actually, finally, I write none of this to be horrible to anyone who is homosexual. Just because we don't agree on a point, doesn't we can't be friends. I think in the West, many people don't have good, deep and challenging conversations because they are so worried that people will not like them if they say something disagreeable.