The Purpose in Life According to Islam

The Purpose Of Life In Islam

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According to Islam the purpose of life has two aims;

1. To recognise thetrue bestower and to give thansk and worship Him

2. To know and experience the divine attributes of god in the world and by experiencing them to believe in them.

By expereincing these two aims a person becomes truly human.

According to the Quran:

So what does the Creator, Allah, tell us about our purpose in life? Allah states in the Quran that He created man to be His Khalefah, His trustee on earth
- Quran 2:30.
Mankind’s basic trust, our responsibility, is to believe in and worship Allah:

And I did not create the Jinn and mankind except to worship Me…
- Quran, 51:56-58

Very simple! The purpose for man’s creation is to worship the Creator. The essence of Allah’s message through all of the prophets also was: O mankind, worship Allah, you have no deity other than Him. (Quran, 7:59,65,73,85; Also 11:50,61,84; and 23:23,32). Allah further states that He made this life in order to test man so that every person may be recompensed after death for what he has earned:

[He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving.
- Quran, 67:2

In order to worship Him, man must know Him well otherwise we may form a distorted concept of Him and then go astray.

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Senses eng from illuzia.net on Vimeo.

In actuality, we have no idea what exists outside of us. We experience the world from within ourselves, and we can never actually feel what is outside.

For instance, I hear a sound, and let’s suppose that there is some influence, or some source that creates a sound wave. The sound wave travels into my ear, hits the membrane, and initiates an electrical current and chemical reactions that my brain interprets as sound. By comparing what I now hear, with the prior experiences that are recorded in my brain, I realize that I hear some sound. In other words, I perceive the sound wave that’s outside of me indirectly, after it was processed thousands of times inside of me. What I perceive is not the actual signal that exists outside of me.

This is a simple example of why we are unable to actually determine what is outside of us. We can only describe what we perceive. However, this is all meant to bring us to a realization that this type of an existence is insufficient for us. We thus reach a conclusion that in order to leave the boundaries of our world we need a new sense, beyond our five senses, that will allow us to feel the universe on a completely different level, and to enter a new dimension

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The Origin of the Human Mind: Brain Imaging and Evolution

UCSD cognitive scientist Martin Sereno takes you on a captivating exploration of the brain's structure and function as revealed through investigations with new advanced imaging techniques and understandings of evolution. Series: "Grey Matters" [12/2005] [Science] [Show ID: 11186]

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