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useful. PLEASE read it.
God (Allah) said in the Holy Quran :
=85 I only created jinn and man to wor****p Me. (Surat adh-Dhariyat: 56)
"Why does Allah want us to wor****p Him?"
Now if we are to look initially into revelation, to determine why was
man created, there is a deeper question that we should be asking
before that: "Why did God create?". This before we even get to man
because man is not the greatest act of creation. Allah says:
"The creation of the Heavens and the Earth is indeed greater then the
creation of mankind; yet, most of mankind know not." [Surah Ghafir,
verse 57]
Man is not the greatest act of creation, this universe is far more
complex and far more magnificent than man. So the issue of creation
should then go to, "Why did God create?", as opposed to simply, "Why
create man?".
Human beings don=92t really create, they manipulate, because they can
only "create" what already exists. When we make a chair or a table,
we
didn=92t create the wood, we had to take it from a tree, we didn=92t
create the ****l, which makes the screws etc, we had to melt down
rocks and take the ****l out. So we are not creating from nothing. We
are manipulating things which Allah has already created in to
different shapes and forms which are useful to us. We call it
"creation" but the real act of creation, is creation from nothing,
and
this is unique to Allah alone.
There is another aspect, besides the fact that the creation exists
because Allah is the creator. We can also see from what prophet
Mohammad pbuh has informed us, that in the creation there is
manifestation of Allah=92s attributes of mercy, forgiveness, kindness
etc etc. Allah created man in paradise, they disobeyed Allah, but
Allah had taught them how to repent, how to turn back to him and seek
his forgiveness, then he would forgive them. Having done that, they
were forgiven, Adam became the first prophet, and mankind was
absolved
of that sin. The story of Adam and Eve is the story of human
existence. Human beings are given a consciousness of Allah. When
Allah
created all human beings, as he states in the Qur'an, he took from
Adam (Adam) all of his descendents, and made them all bear witness
that Allah is their Lord. So we are all born with that consciousness.
He has also given us a consciousness of what is right and what is
wrong.
we were created in a means or a way in which Allah has chosen to
manifest his attributes of creation, mercy, grace etc and he could
have chosen another one. But relative to us as human beings, we know
that our purpose is to wor****p Allah. Allah does not need our
wor****p,
a Allah didn=92t need to create. When he created us to wor****p him, he
didn=92t create us, out of a need for our wor****p, because Allah has no
needs. In a famous hadith qudsi in which Allah says;
If all of you, jinn and mankind, were to wor****p like the most
righteous amongst you, it would not increase the dominion of Allah in
any way shape or form. And if all of us, jinn and mankind ...
Therefore when we look for the purpose of wor****p, we have to look
into man. Allah created us to wor****p him, because we need to wor****p
him. It is something he has given us as a means of benefiting
ourselves. We are the ones who benefit from it. Wor****p has been
established, fundamentally for the growth, the spiritual growth of
man. This growth takes place through the remembrance of Allah. When
you look at all the different aspects of wor****p, you will see the
core of it is focused on the remembrance of Allah.
"Establish the prayer for My remembrance."
Allah has said that he has created us to test us, to see which of us
is best in deeds. He is not testing us to know, in the sense that he
doesn=92t already know, but this world is a test for us in order again
that we can grow spiritually.
We cannot develop this spiritual characteristic of generosity unless
some of us have more then others and then we are required to give of
the wealth we have. When we give, we grow. Similarly, if we were not
in a position where others had more then us then we wouldn=92t have the
ability to develop the higher spiritual quality of *******ment,
patience, satisfaction in what Allah has given us.
So it is all there in order to bring out the higher spiritual
qualities, which enable us to attain the state, which makes us
suitable and eligible to return to paradise. The paradise from which
we were created, we were created in paradise and for paradise.
Through
our choices we have left, in this life, a field of testing, where we
can grow to a state where we deserve paradise.
The purpose of this life is the wor****p of Allah, this life is a
test.
A test for us, will we wor****p Allah, or will we forget Him. This is
where our focus has to begin.
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