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Host: Adee Simon Macdowell.
Guest: Sheima Sumer.

How Will Islam Help Me to Feel More Content With Life?
Sheima Salam Sumer has a Master's degree in Counselor Education from the University of South Carolina in 2007 and worked as a professional counselor in a variety of settings - school, home, and office.
She's the authour of the book "How to be a Happy Muslim", Choosing Inner Peace and Joy with Ideas from the Quran, Sunnah, Counseling, and Health Fields. She is also the author of a book called "The Basic Values of Islam".
She has done two full length interviews with us where she talked about her book and how to be a happy Muslim.
https://untoislam.com/podcast/author-of-the-book-how-to-be-a-happy-muslim-explains-how-to-succeed-by-converting-to-islam
https://untoislam.com/podcast/raise-your-vibration-from-the-islamic-perspective
Today Sister Sheima will answer the following question:
How Will Islam Help Me to Feel More Content With Life?
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Here are 12 ways Islam helps you to feel more content with life:
1. Purpose
Islam gives us a very clear purpose in life: to worship and please and serve God. The Holy Quran states:
And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me." (Holy Quran, 51:56)
So really the purpose for being in this world is to worship God and this brings contentment because we have a direction in life, a goal in life: to please our Creator.
2. Allah is forgiving and merciful
Allah begins every surah/ chapter in the Holy Quran with "Bismillahirrahmaanirraheem," in the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Knowing that Allah chooses these names, these attributes for us to remember Him by is so heartwarming. Allah is the Most Forgiving, Most Merciful and this brings contentment because we don't have to be perfect. If we sin, all we have to do is ask Allah for forgiveness, and Allah will forgive us. So it brings great contentment to know that Allah's mercy is greater than His anger. Allah is so forgiving, so merciful, and there's a hadith in which Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) says that God says:
(God says) O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I will forgive you for what you have done, and I will not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as it. (Tirmidthi, Ahmad)
3. Islam is simple
Islam is very simple. The main teachings of Islam obviously are to believe in Allah and do good deeds. And there's a hadith:
A Bedouin came to the Prophet and said, "Tell me of a deed such that if I were to do it, I would enter Paradise." The Prophet said, "Worship God without worshiping anything along with Him, offer the (five daily) prescribed prayers, pay the compulsory alms (zakat), and fast the month of Ramadan." The Bedouin said, "(I swear) by Him in whose hands my life is, I will not do more than this." When he (the Bedouin) left, the Prophet said, "Whoever would like to see a man of Paradise should look at this man." (Bukhari)
Knowing that we don't need to make religion complicated brings contentment. If we focus on the 5 pillars of Islam, we are doing the minimum we need to do.