the purpose of creation

Preface

Although most people put the question of why we are created are after occasional brief reflection, it is extremely critical for human beings to know the answer. Without knowledge of the correct answer, human beings become indistinguishable from the other animals around them. The animal necessities and desires of eating, drinking and procreating become the purpose of human existence by default, and human effort is then focused in this limited sphere. When material satisfaction develops into the most important goal in life, human existence becomes even more degraded than that of the lowest of animals. Human beings will consistently misuse their god –given intelligence when they lack knowledge of their abilities to create drugs and bombs and becomes engrossed in fornication, pornography, homosexuality, fortunetelling, suicide, etc. without knowledge of the purpose of life, human existence loses all meaning and is consequently wasted, and the reward of an eternal life of happiness in the hereafter is completely destroyed. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance that human beings correctly answer the question
'?why are we here'
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?Why did god create

Creation is fundamentally the consequence of the divine attribute of being the creator. A creator who does not create is something of a contradiction in terms. This is not to say god needs his creation. God is free from all needs. It is creation which needs him. But, as the greatness of a writer becomes apparent in his writings, the perfection of the divine creative attribute is manifest in creation. Creation in the true sense is unique to god alone.

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?why did god create mankind

Humans are first informed by god that every humanbeing is born with an innate consciousness of god.

{ وإذ أخذ ربك من بني اْدم من ظهورهم ذريتهم وأشهدهم علي أنفسهم ألست بربكم قالوا بلي شهدنا أن تقولوا يوم القيامة إنا كنا عن هذا غافلين أو تقولوا إنما أشرك ءاباؤنا من قبل وكنا ذرية من بعدهم أفتهلكنا بما فعل المبطلون }·

the prophet Mohammed explained that when Allah created Adam, he extracted from Adam all of his descendants who would be born until the end of the world, generation after generation, and spread then out before him to take a covenant from him also. He spoke to them, face to face, making them bear witness that he was their lord. Consequently, every human being is responsible for belief in god. It is based on this inborn belief that Allah defined the purpose of humankind’s creation when he said:

{ وما خلقت الجن والإنس إلا ليعبدون}

“I have created the jinn and humankind only for my worship”

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The meaning of worship

To understand why human beings need to worship god, one must first understand what is meant by the term ‘worship’.The English term ‘worship’ comes from the old English worthscipe meaning ‘honor’. Consequently, worship in the English language is defined as ‘the performance of devotional acts in honor of a deity’. So man is instructed to show gratitude to god by glorifying him, so Allah said:

{ فسبح بحمد ربك }

“Glorify the praises of your lord”However, in Arabic, the language of the final revelation, worship is called ‘ibaadah’, which is closely related to the noun ‘abd’, meaning ‘a slave’. A slave is one who is expected to do whatever his master wills.

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The need for worship

Why do human beings need to worship and glorify god by obeying the divinely revealed laws? Because obedience to divine law is the key to success in this life and the next. The first human beings, Adam and Eve, were created in paradise and later expelled from paradise for disobeying the divine law.