PURPOSE OF LIFE: Serve Your Lord Creator As Per His Message!

What’s The Purpose of Your Life?

Serve Your Lord Creator

As A Faithful & Sincere Slave!

He Sent You A Message

Telling You What To Do

In This World. Did You

Understand The Message?

(M. Javed Naseem)

“We have revealed for you (O men!)

a Book in which is a Message for you!

Will you not then understand?”

(al-Quran 21:10)

Have you ever asked yourself: “What’s the purpose of my life here?” And if you did, what answer did you get from your heart or from your conscience? The Bible says:

You are the most beautiful, wonderful and magnificent creation of Allah, the Supreme Creator. The sole purpose of your temporary life on this planet Earth is to glorify your Lord Creator Who is the Cherisher, the Sustainer and Most Merciful Beneficent. Simply put: Allah is your Master and you are His slave. Therefore, do your duty and serve your Master faithfully! That is the purpose of your being here. Everything else is bullshit, manufactured to fool you and interpreted to manipulate you.

The Supreme Creator (Allah) has mentioned the purpose of your creation in the Quran, chapter 51 (Surah ad-Dhaariyat), verse 56, as follows:

Surah ad-Dhaariyat

“I have only created Jinns and men,

that they may serve Me.”

(al-Quran 51:56)

And do we know how to serve Allah? Well, obey His commands (detailed in the Quran) the way Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) showed us to obey! If we follow the Prophet (s.a.w.) as a role-model in every respect, we’ll never go astray.

Some people have translated and interpreted the above Quranic verse as:

“I have only created Jinns and men

so that they worship Me”.

This translation or interpretation is not correct. It’s only partially correct. Serving Allah is a very comprehensive term as compared to worshiping Allah. Worship is a small part of serving Allah. ‘Serving’ Allah encompasses every aspect of life on this planet whereas ‘worshiping’ covers only one part – worship.

In the Quran, there are hundreds of commands from Allah that don’t form part of the ‘worship’ commands. They cover other aspects like family life, duties of a husband or a wife; inheritance, education, treatment of others and especially neighbors, the orphans, the widows, the poor; how to conduct; how to talk; what to eat; how to maintain peace; how to curb evil; etc., etc. And then comes the other part (the ‘worship’ part) the commands of which cover Tawheed, Salaat and Zikr (Dhikr), Zakat, fasting in Ramadan, praying at night, Hajj and Umrah, etc. These worship commands can easily be distinguished from other commands. The scholars have separated the two parts labeling them as ‘Huqooq-u-Allah’ and ‘Huqooq-ul-Ibad’. We all know what they are.

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Islam is ‘to surrender or submit unconditionally

to the Will of God’. Only the honest and sincere

submission to our Lord Creator can protect us

from the raging Hellfire, nothing else!

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Subhan-Allah! Our Lord, the Almighty, knew how Pakistani nation would treat and handle the Quran, so He asked them a question in Chapter 21, Surah al-Anbiya (the Prophets). He said: 

“We have revealed for you (O men!) a

Book in which there is a Message for you!

Will you not then understand?”  

(al-Quran 21:10)

As a matter of fact, this question is meant for the entire mankind in general, but I would say that it is addressed to Pakistanis in particular. A very simple verse asking a very simple question! Allah has sent us a Message and He is asking us if we understood it (if we know what to do). Logically, when you are given a message, you first read it, fully understand it and then try to implement it. A normal course!

Now, we have the Message (the Quran) in our hands. Have we read it? Yes, many times. Some people even finish it three times during the month of Ramadan. And they are very happy that they would get the reward (Sawaab or Hassanah) for reading it. But the question Allah asked us, still remains unanswered: Did we understand the Message? The true answer is ‘NO’; more than 90% did not understand it. So what’s the purpose?

It’s our obligation that we understand and implement the Message of our Lord Creator otherwise we’ll end up as losers, both in this world and in the Hereafter. Let me make one thing clear here! Reading the Quran (without understanding it and without implementing it) just for Sawaab or Hassanah is not enough. It’s not going to protect us from the Hellfire if we don’t do what Allah tells us to do. In His Message (the Quran) Allah talks to us; gives us the commands to do certain things and forbids us certain things. If we do that, we are declared ‘successful’ but if we fail to do that, we end up as losers in both worlds. Simple as that!

Let’s try to understand the Message. Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) was the Messenger of God and he brought us Allah’s Message – the Quran, also called the ‘Book’. In the beginning of the Quran and the Surah al-Baqara, Allah says:

 

“This is the Book; in it is guidance sure,

without doubt, to those who fear Allah.”

(al-Quran 2:2)

In other words, this is the message in which there is definite guidance and which, without any doubt, shall guide those believers who fear Allah (or are mindful of Allah). Now, who are those people? The answer is in the next two verses:

“Who believe in the Unseen, are steadfast in prayer,

and spend out of what We have provided for them.”

(al-Quran 2:3)

“And who believe in the Revelation sent to you,

and sent before your time, and (in their hearts)

have the assurance of the Hereafter.”

(al-Quran 2:4)

Very clear explanation! Those are the people who believe in the Unseen One God and angels; people who are steadfast in their worship of Allah (prayers and remembrance); who spend regularly in charity from the bounties of Allah; who believe in the Quran (the Divine Message) sent to Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) and other Messages (Scriptures) revealed to earlier Prophets and Messengers; and who definitely believe in the life after death (the Hereafter). This is the Message of Allah in a nutshell. And this is also precisely the definition of Faith (Iman).

And if you are the person who does all of the above, you are then rightly guided and Allah gives you the good news of success and prosperity:

“They are on (true) guidance, from their Lord,

and it is them who will prosper.”

(al-Quran 2:2-5)

On the other hand, if we fail to understand and implement the Message, we’ll be punished. Allah has warned us clearly at many places in the Quran. Allah does not like disobedience and rebellion from His servants or slaves.

The Bible says:

1-Peter 3:11

“They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.”

Galatians 5:22

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.”

Hebrews 12:14

“Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.”

James 3:18

“Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.”

Proverbs 12:20

Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.”

Allah tells us that if He had wanted, He would have guided every soul in the universe so that there would be no evil and injustice. But Allah gave human beings and the Jinns liberty and freedom of choice. Allah likes us to follow His commands and fulfill our obligations voluntarily. At the end of our tenure in this world, we’ll be held accountable for all our deeds, good or bad, and on the basis of those deeds we would eventually be rewarded with Paradise or punished with Hellfire. Allah knows that a lot of us won’t qualify for Paradise, therefore, would be punished and sent to Hell. Allah’s promise is True! He declares in Surah as-Sajda (chapter 32):

“If We had so willed, We could certainly have

brought every soul its true guidance; but the

Word from Me will come true, ‘I will fill Hell

with Jinns and men all together.’" 

(al-Quran 32:13)

You don’t need any middle-man (a Mullah, Maulvi or a scholar) to understand the commands of Allah. Read the Quran with translation in your own language again and again. And you’ll be guided. Guaranteed! Only implementing (applying it to our lives) of the Quran can guarantee us protection from Hellfire. So, study it well!

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