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Mental Health Various studies have found that happiness relates more strongly to people's mental health than it does to their objective physical health; that is their health as assessed independently by a doctor (Martin, 2006, P. 105). Recreation Rec...

Mental Health Various studies have found that happ...

Friendship and social relations According to Argyle (2004), social relations have a very great effect on happiness and other aspects of health, and it might be the greatest single cause. In other studies, some evidences have been represented based on...

Friendship and social relations According to Argyl...

Cognition of the World Happiness depends on a considerable extent on how we think about the world, as well as our emotional responses. Someone who can think straight and solve real life problems is better equipped to be happy. Wisdom means being able...

Cognition of the World Happiness depends on a cons...

Jahidh (in Al-Hayawan) admits that the spiritual pleasures of the soul (quantitatively or qualitatively) are much higher than the sensory pleasures. It can be concluded from his writings that happiness is reaching the spiritual pleasures and attainin...

Jahidh (in Al-Hayawan) admits that the spiritual p...

It appears that we can hardly find any philosophers who have not spoken of happiness. It indicates the close relationship between philosophy and happiness. Some of philosophers have written much about happiness, and some less. Investigating the detai...

It appears that we can hardly find any philosopher...

One of the important factors of happiness is health. All pleasures of life are meaningless unless one is healthy. Imam Ali says that there is no goodness in life save with health. He also believes that through health, life pleasures are understandabl...

One of the important factors of happiness is healt...

One of the factors of man's life is to work. Imam Sadeq says that if all humans' needs were satisfied, life would not be delightful for them, and they would not enjoy it. Then he adds that the best tact for what has been created for human beings is i...

One of the factors of man's life is to work. Imam ...

Since working is one of the factors of happiness, while on the other hand continuous working and effort makes one tired, we need enough sleep, which is in itself one of the other factors of happiness. The Qur'an says, "And We made your sleep to be re...

Since working is one of the factors of happiness, ...

Happiness is impossible without security. Imam Ali says that every happiness needs security. The Qur'an refers to the bounty of security in many of its verses: "So let them serve the Lord of this House, who has fed them against hunger and secured the...

Happiness is impossible without security. Imam Ali...

The prophet of Islam says of the one who solves a problem of the believers that God will solve seventy-two of his problems in the world and in the hereafter. According to Imam Sadeq, "Make your (religious) brother happy, so that God may make you happ...

The prophet of Islam says of the one who solves a ...

Loneliness makes one annoyed. Man likes to be with others and communicate with them. This is an emotional need. Friendship can save man from loneliness and make him happy. The happiness of having friends occurs when one can find a friend who is simil...

Loneliness makes one annoyed. Man likes to be with...

Prayer and worship of God can remove sorrow and cause happiness. Imam Sadeq recommends that when a worldly grief overcomes someone, he should perform ablution, go into a mosque, and pray to God (Akbari, 2006, p.189). The ultimate goal of man's creati...

Prayer and worship of God can remove sorrow and ca...

One of the original needs of all human beings is to be with God. God blew His spirit into man; thus, if man is not connected to God, he will not enjoy a happy life. The Qur'an says, "Those who believe, their hearts being at rest in God's remembrance,...

One of the original needs of all human beings is t...

Faith and belief in God can be considered as one of the causes of happiness. The Qur'an says in this regard: "those who believe, and have not confounded their belief with evildoing-to them belongs the true security; they are rightly guided" (An'am, 6...

Faith and belief in God can be considered as one o...

One of the ways in which humans can achieve happiness is asceticism. The real meaning of asceticism is "not wanting," not "not having". Real asceticism does not want worldly things to the extent that one becomes so attached to them that he becomes so...

One of the ways in which humans can achieve happin...

It is of the most basic and fundamental religious beliefs that the world flows on the basis of divine wisdom, and there is not even one phenomenon or event that has no reason. Thus, it is important for us to know wisdom and expediencies of events. A ...

It is of the most basic and fundamental religious ...

The prophet of Islam said that (real and spiritual) knowledge is a light that God places in the hearts of those whom He likes. It is evident that it is a (faithful) heart that deserves such knowledge. The prophet of Islam says that if I spend a day i...

The prophet of Islam said that (real and spiritual...

We should know the world as it is. An easy life is the result of the cognition of the world. The prophet of Islam said that if you knew of the world what I know, your souls would feel complacency from it. He also said in his prayers, "0 God! show the...

We should know the world as it is. An easy life is...

Happiness is the major concept of every time and place, and has always been emphasized in different schools by different scholars. It can be investigated from different points of view. Investigation of happiness from the religious, philosophical and ...

Happiness is the major concept of every time and p...

There have been arguments presented for the existence of God which are non-analytical, and do not rely an purely logical or empirical premises. There is a strong strand within classical Islamic philosophy, beginning with Al-Ghazzali, to strongly put ...

There have been arguments presented for the existe...

The modern form of the ontological argument in modern western philosophy was made famous by Anselm and Descartes. The argument rests on the premise that existence is a predicate that a being could have or lack. A summary of Anselm's argument is as fo...

The modern form of the ontological argument in mod...