Is something missing?

Everyone has his own worries.. everyone feels that there is something missing in life.. that's a fact. But, some let these worries to turn their lives upside down, while others realize the wisdom of having some things missing.

They are those who realize that this life is none but a test, and that it wasn't ever their final destination.

For a Muslim, s/he needs to realize the purpose why s/he is alive.
Knows who created him/her?.. and why?

Answering those questions leads them to the Quran and Sunnah, which are the user-guides of this life, you can say.

The Quran describes for us clearly, why are we here?.. and what are we supposed to do.

The Quran tells people, that the only goal that a human being should work for, in this world, is God's pleasant.
It also assures people, that this world, with all what it contains, is just an illusion, and a temporary pleasure.. a test.

To get God's pleasant, it doesn't require a super-effort nor super-results. It only requires, obeying Him, in all what He tells us to do in that book and in all aspects.

Without expecting much results, cause, the real award that a Believer should wait for and expect, comes in the Hereafter.

So, for a human being who is aware of who created him, what for and how to please Him?
It would become easy to reach personal satisfaction, or what is called as: completeness.

Does that mean, that mistakes aren't allowed?.
The answer is, No, of course.
There is always a space for mistakes.. cause, there is repentance.

But, what is important is, to make sure that God's minimum basic instructions are applied.. and then, mistakes are accepted with anything else, that comes beyond those minimum lines He describes for us, in His Book.

This is how a human can reach personal satisfaction.

Generally speaking, 'life' as a whole.. with whatever it may bring.. shouldn't turn people down-so bad.

The equation is: إن الله اشترى من المؤمنين أنفسهم وأموالهم بأن لهم الجنة
Then, we give Him all what He gave us (since creation), and also, we take all what He gives us/deprives us from.

When Jebril, as, asked the Prophet, sAaws, about Faith, he answered:
"أن تؤمن بالله ، وملائكته ، وكتبه ، ورسله ، واليوم الآخر، وتؤمن بالقدر خيره وشره"

Those who live according to their own desires, are always lost, and they always question life in the form of 'why this' and 'why that'. While life itself isn't guilty. But they are.

Those who believe in God, they know that life is none but a test, and that whatever it brings, good or bad, is to test them no more.

So they never become pride for the goodness they may get, and they also never go down for the evil they may have. As they realize that they created nothing of that, but it's God Who let things happen.

It can be hard to miss one of this life's ornaments, as it is our nature to need things, but for a believer, he knows very well that himself, his soul, his body and his life are all God's. They are still some 'ornaments' that He tests us with, no more.

Missing some worldly stuff can be hard, can make one sad for a while, but it is still an ornament in the eyes of a believer, without which he can survive and still work to achieve his goal; the purpose why he was created.

Real personal satisfaction comes after fulfilling what God expects us to do as a minimum (performing Foroud and avoiding Haram), and then, we can do our best to fulfill the other things He 'allows' and 'encourages' us to do in this life.

Mistakes may happen with the secondary issues, but they shouldn't happen with the primary ones.

This is how inner peace could be achieved in this world, for those who are aware of God's complete religion.

Dunia with all its ornaments has nothing to do with personal satisfaction, in a believer's heart.
It may depress him for a while, but it never stops him from pursuiting his goals in this temporary test.

We are people who live for God, eat for God, drink for God, sleep for God, learn for God, work for God, make money for God, build for God, speak for God, have fun for God, marry for God, grow up kids for God, do goodness for God, avoid evil for God and dies with the hope to please God.

We don't join partners with Him, neither life, its ornaments, our desires nor our needs.
Everything is His, and will get back to Him.
He says in the Quran:
وبشر الصابرين. الذين إذا أصابتهم مصيبة، قالوا إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

Satan tries to let people put life or any of its ornaments as a priority itself, while the fact is, life is only a 'mean' to achieve God's pleasant, which is our priority.

Who realizes this fact, wins. Who denies it, loses both: this life and the Hereafter.

God says:
ومن كان في هذه أعمى (الدنيا)فهو في الآخرة أعمى وأضل سبيلا

So let's hope that God makes us of those who see Truth clearly, and to live according to it. To win both; this life and the Hereafter. Ameen! :)

He says:
فمن الناس من يقول ر بنا آتنا في الدنيا حسنة وما له في الآخرة من خلاق. ومنهم من يقول ربنا آتنا في الدنيا حسنة وفي الآخرة حسنة وقنا عذاب النار. أولئك لهم نصيب مما كسبوا، والله سريع الحساب

So let's pray to God that we get both, Ameen!

He also says:
وابتغ فيما آتاك الله الدار الآخرة، ولا تنس نصيبك من الدنيا
1- Make use of what 'God gave you', to win your Hereafter.
2- Don't forget to enjoy 'your share' of Dunia.

So we can enjoy what God gave/gives us, without worrying for more. Cause, if there is more, then He will give it to us indeed, if not now, then on the right time.

All what we need is just to pray for this 'more' to come.

So.. Ameen!