2. Introduction
• what is Islamic ideology of life or purpose of life?
• Is purpose of life restricted to following the good life
according to the requisites of civilization?
3. What is the purpose of life?
• There are three aims:
– 1st to recognize the True Bestower, and
offer God thanks and worship.
– 2nd is to know and experience the Divine Attributes
of God in the world, and by experiencing them, to
believe in them.
• -3rd life is a test for human.
• Through these three basic aims, human
becomes a true human being.
4. The answer from the Qur’an
* What did Allah say about creation in the Qur’an?
“I have not created the jinn and the Humankind except that
they should worship me” (Qur’an 51:56)
5. Surely, in the creation of heavens and earth, and
the alternation of night and day, and the ships that sail in
the sea, carrying that which benefits men, and in the water
Allah sent down from the sky, then revived with it the earth
after it was dead, and in every creature He has scattered on
it, and in turning of winds, and in the clouds employed to
serve between heaven and earth, there are signs for those
who have sense. (2:164)
TO KNOW GOD
6. Why do we have to
experience this life?
• Quran insists that, in the design of
God, our earthly life is a necessary
stage in human existence:
• The One who created death and life, so that He may test
you as to which of you is better in his deeds. And He is the
All-Mighty, the Most-Forgiving. (67:2)
Those (are believers) who remember God standing and sitting
and lying down, and reflect upon the creation of the heavens
and the earth (saying): “Our Lord, you did not create all this
in vain.” (3:191)
7. Knowledge is the base of
everything.
• Man came to this world to be perfected by means of
knowledge and supplication.
• In regard to his nature and abilities everything is tied
to knowledge.
• And the foundation, source, light, and spirit of all
true knowledge is knowledge of God, and its essence
and basis is belief in God.”
8. • We are tested in this world
so that we may become
– clarified,
– purified
– attain virtue and perfection
– Attain success of this life and life hereafter.
through our choice (free will)
• We find trials and tests in every aspect of our lives.
Is this life a test?
9. Is this life a struggle?
• To remember the life’s ultimate purpose in difficult times.
• Assuredly we will try you with
something of danger and hunger
and loss of some worldly goods,
and of lives and the fruits of your
labor. But give glad tidings to those
who are patient in adversity,- those
who, when calamity befalls them,
say, “Truly, to God we belong and, truly, to Him we shall
return.” (2:155-156)
10. LEARNING IN TEST &
STRUGGLE
• It is by learning from one’s own mistakes,
– Rising above our mistakes,
that we learn and progress to
higher levels of goodness.
– Excepting the one who repents and believes and does
righteous deeds- then for those, God will change their
evil deeds into good deeds, for God is Most Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (25:70)
11. God is responsive to those who seek Him:
• And if my servants call on Me, surely I am near. I heed
the call of every caller. So let them with a call unto Me
and let them believe in Me, in order that they may be
guided aright. (2:186)
• When you approach God by an arm’s length, He
approaches you by two, and if you come to Him
walking, He comes to you running. (Hadith)
12. Sin as self destruction, rebellion
against one’s true nature.
• Evidence have come to you from your Lord. Then the one
who sees does so for his own soul, and the one who is
blind, it is upon himself. (6:104)
• We have revealed to you the Book for mankind with the
truth. Then the one who is guided, it is for his own soul,
the one who strays, his straying is only upon himself.
(39:41)
• They did not do injustice to Us,
but rather they wronged
their own souls. (7:160)
13. Forgiveness
• O My servants who have sinned against
yourselves, never despair of God’s mercy.
Surely God forgives all sins. He is the Most
forgiving the Most Merciful. (39:53)
• In reality we are doing injustice
and violence to ourselves by
oppressing and robbing ourselves
of our spiritual ascent.
14. Conclusion
The purpose of our creation is to reach our utmost goals
of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on
God.
This worldly realm is the field of testing and learning
that we may experience God attributes and believe in
them.
