What is The Meaning of Life?

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  • To realize one’s potential and ideals
  • To achieve biological perfection
  • To seek wisdom and knowledge
  • To do good, to do the right thing
  • Meanings relating to religion
  • To love, to feel, to enjoy the act of living
  • To have power, to be better
  • Life has no meaning
  • One should not seek to know and understand the meaning of life
  • Antinatalism

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Wellness In Alternative Medicine

Wellness In Alternative Medicine This article covers Wellness In Alternative Medicine. Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being. The notions behind the term share the same roots as the alternative medicine movement, in 19th-century movements in the US and Europe that sought to optimize health...

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Six-factor Model Of Psychological Well-being

Six-factor Model Of Psychological Well-being The Six-factor Model of Psychological Well-being is a theory developed by Carol Ryff which determines six factors which contribute to an individual’s psychological well-being, contentment, and happiness. Psychological well-being consists of positive relationships with others, personal mastery, autonomy, a feeling of purpose and meaning in life, and personal growth...

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Animals

Animals Animals (Metazoa) are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been...

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Prophetic Medicine

Prophetic Medicine In Islam, Prophetic medicine (الطب النبوي‎, ‘Al-Tibb al-nabawī) is the advice given by the prophet Muhammad with regards to sickness, treatment and hygiene as found in the hadith, and the writings undertaken primarily by non-physician scholars to collect and explicate these traditions. It is distinct from Islamic medicine, which is a broader category encompassing a variety...

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Women’s Liberation Through Islam

Women’s Liberation Through Islam This article covers Women’s Liberation and Islam. Today people think that women are liberated in the West and that the women’s liberation movement began in the 20th century. Actually, the women’s liberation movement was not begun by women but was revealed by God to a man...

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Women Bearing Witness In Islam

Women Bearing Witness In Islam This article covers Women Bearing Witness In Islam. In some instances of bearing witness to certain civil contracts, two men are required or one man and two women. Again, this is no indication of the woman being inferior to man. It is a measure of...

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How Does Islam Elevate The Status Of Women?

How Does Islam Elevate The Status Of Women? This article covers The Status Of Women in Islam. According to the Qur’an, men and women are equal before God; women are not blamed for violating the “forbidden tree,” nor is their suffering in pregnancy and childbirth a punishment for that act....

A scene from a female-majority class at the Psychology Department of Uludağ University in Bursa, Turkey. In Turkey, 47.5% of staff at the top five universities are female, a higher proportion than for their equivalents in the United States (35.9%), Denmark (31%) and Japan (12.7%).[62]

Islam And The Position Of Women

Islam And The Position Of Women This article covers Islam and the Position of Women. The West’s vociferous partisans of Women’s Lib. have no idea of the revolutionary leap forward in women’s position which Islam brought about. In the days of Islam’s first appearance the position of women was that...

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Women’s Rights In Islam

Women’s Rights In Islam Women’s Rights in Islam is a very comprehensive subject. From one perspective it is open to debate. It’s very difficult to summarize my thoughts on this kind of platform. In one sense we don’t separate men and women. In another sense there are physical and psychological...

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Women In Islam: Fethullah Gülen’s Perspective

Women In Islam: Fethullah Gülen’s Perspective The intellectual debates in Turkey on the status of women in Islam have not been different than the rest of the Islamic world. As in any Muslim intellectual circle, feminism and its critics were the topics of many debates among the Turkish intellectuals. Western...

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Familiarity

Familiarity What is Ulfa (Familiarity)? and What Are its Negative Effects? The word ulfa means familiar intercourse, familiarity, friendship. But what is meant in the question has a far broader and more comprehensive meaning than the bare translation of the word conveys. Humanity‘s relationship to things and events, the meanings...

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Why Is Slaughtering Animals Prescribed As It Is

Why Is Slaughtering Animals Prescribed As It Is We can best grasp the benefits of slaughtering animals according to the manner prescribed to Muslims. Muslims are permitted to slaughter animals for food, and the manner of doing so is carefully prescribed in the Qur’an and Sunna. To depart from that...

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Human Rights Abuses And Islam

Human Rights Abuses And Islam This article covers Human Rights Abuses And Islam. The ideology of Western civilization claims the concept of human rights as its invention. In fact, Islamic Law had long since recognized basic human rights and established principles and safeguards which have only recently been incorporated in...

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Humane Treatment Of Animals

Humane Treatment Of Animals This article covers humane treatment of animals in Islam. God, the Creator of human beings and animals, has made animals subservient to us. We depend on animals for the food we eat and the milk we drink. We bring animals into our homes for love and...

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Day Of Resurrection

Day Of Resurrection The Day of Resurrection or the Day of Judgement is believed to be God’s final assessment of humanity in Islamic eschatology. In Islamic eschatology, Yawm al-Qiyāmah (يوم القيامة‎ “the Day of Resurrection“) or Yawm ad-Din (يوم الدين‎ “the Day of Judgement“) is believed to be God’s final assessment of humanity. It is...

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The Status Of Woman In Islam

The Status Of Woman In Islam The status of woman in Islam constitutes no problem. The attitude of the Qur’an and the early Muslims bear witness to the fact that woman is, at least, as vital to life as man himself, and that she is not inferior to him nor...

Divorce

Christian Views On Divorce

Christian Views On Divorce Christian views on divorce find their basis both in biblical sources dating to the giving of the law to Moses (Deut 24:1–4) and political developments in the Christian world long after standardization of the Bible. According to the synoptic Gospels, Jesus emphasized the permanence of marriage, (see Mark 10 at verses 1 to 9, Matthew 19; Luke 16 v. 18)...

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Islamic Marriage Contract

Islamic Marriage Contract An Islamic marriage contract is considered an integral part of an Islamic marriage, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom and bride or other parties involved in marriage proceedings under Sharia. Whether it is considered a formal, binding contract depends on the jurisdiction. Islamic faith marriage contracts are...

Divorce

Divorce In Islam

Divorce In Islam Divorce in Islam can take a variety of forms, some initiated by the husband and some initiated by the wife. The main traditional legal categories are talaq (repudiation), khulʿ (mutual divorce), judicial divorce and oaths. The theory and practice of divorce in the Islamic world have varied according...

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Marriage In Islam

Marriage In Islam Marriage in Islam is a legal contract between a man and a woman. Both the groom and the bride are to consent to the marriage of their own free wills. A formal, binding contract – verbal or on paper – is considered integral to a religiously valid Islamic...