Islam and the Aim of Life

ISLAM AND THE AIM OF LIFE What is the purpose of my life? What is the purpose purpose of your life? life? What is the purpose of our lives? Such questions occur frequently to thinking people. People answer these questions in different ways. Some people believe the purpose purpose of life is getting wealthy. But these people what their purpose is after they have collected collected millions millions of dollars. dollars. So What? What ? And then What? What will be their purpose purpose after they get these millions millions of dollars? dollars? If the purpose of life is to become wealthy, there will be no purpose after becoming wealthy. And in fact,  here comes the problem of some disbelievers or misbelievers. In some stages of  their life. When they are collecting money is the target of life. When they collected the money which they have dreamt of, their life losses purpose and they live in tension and restlessness and suffer from the panic of nothingness.

Can Wealth be an Aim? We often hear of a millionaire millionaire committing committing suicide. Sometimes, Sometimes, not the millionaire himself but his wife, son, or daughter. The question is this: can aiming aiming at wealth bring happiness to the individual? individual? In most cases the answer is NO. Is the purpose of collecting wealth is a standing purpose? As we know, the child of five years years does not look for wealth: wealth: he prepares a toy to a million million dollars. dollars. The adolescent of eighteen does not dream of wealth because because he is busy with more important important things. things. The old man of ninety years does not care for money; money; he is worried more about his health. This proves that wealth cannot be a standing purpose in all the stages of the individual's life. Wealth can do a little to bring happiness to a disbeliever, because a disbeliever is not sure about his end or his fate. A disbeliever disbeliever does not know the purpose of life. And if he has a purpose, this purpose is doomed to be temporary temporary or self  destructive. What is the use of wealth to a disbeliever disbeliever if he feels scared scared of the end and skeptical of everything? A disbeliever may gain a lot of money, but surely loses himself.

Worshipping Allah as an Aim On the contrary, contrary, faith in Allah gives the believer the purpose of life he needs. In Islam, the purpose purpose of life is to worship Allah. The term "Worship" "Worship" covers all acts of obedience to Allah. The Islamic purpose of life is a standing purpose. The true Muslim sticks to this purpose throughout all the stages of his life, whether he is a child,  adolescent, adolescent, adult, or an old man.

Worshipping Allah makes life purposeful and meaning especially with the framework of Islam. According to Islam this worldly life is just a short stage of  our life. life. Then there is the other life. life. The first life and the second second life are by the death stage, which is a transitory transitory stage of the second life. The type of the second second life a person deserves depends depends on his deeds in the first life. At the end of  the death stage; the day of judgment comes. On this day; Allah rewards or punishes punishes people according according to their deeds in the first life.

The First Life as an Examination So Islam looks at the first life as an examinatio examination n of man. The death stage is similar similar to a rest period after the test, i. e., after the first life. The Day of  Judgment Judgment is similar to the day of announcing announcing the results results of the examines. examines. The second second life is the time when each examinee examinee enjoys enjoys or suffers suffers from the outcome outcome of his behavior during the test period. In Islam, the line of life is clear, clear, simple, and logical: logical: the first life, death then the Day of Judgment, Judgment, and then the second second life. With this clear line of life, the Muslim has a clear purpose in life. The Muslims knows he is created by Allah. The Muslim knows he is going to spend some years years in this first first life, during which he has to obey God, because God will question him and hold him responsible for his deeds, whether done publicly or privately, because Allah knows all deeds deeds of all people. The Muslim knows that his deeds in the first life will determine determine the type of his second life. The Muslim knows that this first first life is very short one, one hundred years, more or less, whereas the second life is an eternal one.

The Eternity of the second Life This concept of the eternity eternity of the second life has a tremendous tremendous effect effect on a Muslim Muslim during his first life; because the Muslims Muslims believe that his first life determines determines the shape of his second life. In addition, addition, this determines determines shape of  his second life. In addition, this determination will be through the Judgment of  Allah, the All just and Almighty. With this belief belief in the second life and the Day of Judgment, the Muslim's life becomes as purposeful as possible and as meaningful as possible. The Muslim's standing standing purpose purpose is to go to Paradise Paradise in the second life. In other words, the Muslim's Muslim's permanent purpose purpose is to obey Allah, Allah, to summit summit to Allah Allah to summit to Allah, to carry out His orders, orders, and to keep in continues continues touch with Him through through prayer (five times a day), through through fasting fasting (one month a year), through charity (as often as possible), and through pilgrimage (once in one's life).

The need For a Permanent Purpose

Disbelievers have purposes in their lives such as collecting money and property,  indulging sex, eating, and dancing. But all these purposes are passing ones. All these purposes come and go, go up and down. Money comes and goes. Health comes and goes. Sexual activities cannot continue forever. All these lusts for money, money, food and sex cannot cannot answer answer the individual individual's 's questions questions to himself: himself: so what? Then What? However, Islam saves the Muslims from trouble of asking the question, because Islam makes it clear to the Muslim, Muslim, from the very beginning, beginning, that the permanent permanent purpose purpose of the Muslim, Muslim, in this life is to obey Allah Allah in order to go to Paradise Paradise in the second life. We should know that the only way for our salvatio salvation n in this life life and in the hereafter hereafter is to know for sure our Lord who created created us, believe in Him, and worship Him alone. We should also know our Prophet whom Allah had sent to all mankind, believe in Him and follow follow Him. We should, should, know the religion of truth which our Lord has commanded commanded us to believe in, and practice it.. Those in search of truth Who have an open mind and heart,  Islamic Education Foundation Welcome You. Objectives: To Convey the message of Islam To Educate Muslims about Islam To keep in close contact with new Muslims. Activities: Offering Courses and presenting lectures about Islam in several languages. Teaching Islam and Arabic. Teaching new Muslims to receive the Holy Quran. Helping Non- Muslims embrace Islam and complete the required procedures.