The Purpose of Life in Islam

Yaqeen Ul Haq Ahmad Ahmad Sikander

RKQS 1030

Dr Noor Mohammad Osmani

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Introduction  What is Life? Life as a Purposeful Creation Life in other Religions – A brief overview Purpose of Life in Islam Conclusion References

Introduction  What is Life? Life?  Where do I come come from? from?  Where will I go after Death?

These fundamental Questions need an

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What is Life?   

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 Very Important  Very Important & Significant Question Question Different Perspectives  Various  V arious definitions by different Philosophers & Scholars. The meaning of life is deeply mixed with the philosophical and religious conceptions of existence, consciousness, and happiness, and touches on many  other issues, such as symbolic meaning, ontology,  value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, conceptions conceptions of God, the existence of God, the soul and the afterlife.

Life as a Purposeful Creation  

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Life is not purposeless but is highly purposeful Everything has a purpose & Life L ife too has a deep and significant purpose  And if everything around us has a purpose then the great asset of life cannot be purposeless Religion is the best bes t way way to know about the Purpose Purpose of  Life.

Life in other Religions  – A Brief Overview   

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Defected or incomplete as compared to Islam Hinduism – Cycle of Birth & Rebirth  Judaism – Almost silent on purpose of life, Just poetry  & History History.. Christianity – Original Sin, St. Paul, Crucifixion Zoroastrianism – Ahura Mazda & Ahriman, Paganism Buddhism & Jainism – Renouncing Renouncing the world to get get salvation. Life in Islam – The only choice

Purpose of Life in Islam 

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To acquire knowledge in order to understand our status in life. Man is Dignified Being. Be ing. Man is the Representative (Khalifa) of Allah on Earth (2:30) Man has to manifest divine attributes into himself   Allah created us in order to worship Him (51:56) Life is a test to Man (61:2) He will be rewarded according in the Aakhirah Aakh irah Man is the Best of the Creation

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Life is really a precious asset and a trust from Allah  Without knowing knowing the purpose of life, life becomes aimless  without any final goal goal Except Except Islam, in all other religions and philosophies, the t he purpose of life is incomplete, or defected, or impractical or not moderate Only Islam provides the complete code code of life & only Islam is the universal religion belonging to all humanity   And the moment we realize our purpose in life, our status gets exalted till Allah Al lah mentions us as the best evolved people: “You are the best of Peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in  Allah”   Allah” 

Refrences   

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Books: Muhsin Khan, Dr. M., The Noble Quran, Quran, Darrusalam, (Riyadh – 1996). The Holy Quran – English Translation of the meanings and commentary, The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques King Fahd Complex.  Yusuf  Yusuf Ali, Abdullah, Abdullah, The Holy Quran, Quran, Goodword Books, (New Delhi – 2005).  Abdalati, Hammudah, Hammudah, Islam in Focus, Focus, Adam Publishers, (New Delhi – 2006). Khanam, Dr. Farida, Islamic Studies Class XI (textbook), (textbook), Devra Books, (New Delhi – 2007). Sikander, Yaqeen Ul Haq Ahmad, The True Purpose of Life, Adam Publishers, (New Delhi - 2009).

Softwares: Alim for Windows, V  Version ersion 4.5, ISL Software Corporation, 1996. The Hadith Software, V  Version ersion 1.0, Islamasoft Solutions.

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