ISLAM and the AIM of LIFE
What is your purpose in life? What is the rationale behind our life? Why do we live in this life? These questions frequently intrigue people who try to find accurate answers.
People provide different answers to these questions. Some people believe the purpose of life is to accumulate wealth. But one may wonder: What is the purpose of life after one has collected colossal amounts of money? What then? What will the purpose be once money is gathered? If the purpose of life is to gain money, there will be no purpose after becoming wealthy. And in fact, here lies the problem of some disbelievers or misbelievers at some stage of their life, when collecting money is the target of their life. When they have collected the money they dreamt of, their life loses its purpose. They suffer from the panic of nothingness and they live in tension and restlessness.
Can Wealth Be an Aim?
We often hear of a millionaire committing suicide, sometimes, not the millionaire himself but his wife, son, or daughter. The question that poses itself is: Can wealth bring happiness to one’s life? In most cases the answer is NO. Is the purpose of collecting wealth a standing purpose? As we know, the five-year old child does not look for wealth: a toy for him is equal to a million dollars. The eighteen-year old adolescent does not dream of wealth because he is busy with more important things. The ninety-year old man does not care about 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 little to bring happiness to a disbeliever, because he/she is not sure about his fate. A disbeliever does not know the purpose of life. And if he has a purpose, this purpose is doomed to be temporary or self destructive.
What is the use of wealth to a disbeliever if he feels scared of the end and skeptical of everything. A disbeliever may gain a lot of money, but will surely lose himself.
Worshipping Allah as an Aim
On the contrary, faith in Allah gives the believer the purpose of life that he needs. In Islam, the purpose of life is to worship Allah. The term "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, adult, or an old man.
Worshipping Allah makes life purposeful and meaningful, especially within the framework of Islam. According to Islam this worldly life is just a short stage of our life. Then there is the other life. The boundary between the first and second life is the death stage, which is a transitory stage to the second life. The type of life in the second stage a person deserves depends on his deeds in the first life. At the end of the death stage comes the day of judgment. On this day, Allah rewards or punishes people according to their deeds in the first life.
The First Life as an Examination
So, Islam looks at the first life as an examination of man. The death stage is similar to a rest period after the test, i. e. after the first life. The Day of Judgment is similar to the day of announcing the results of the examinees. The second life is the time when each examinee enjoys or suffers from the outcome of his behavior during the test period.
In Islam, the line of life is clear, simple, and logical: the first life, death, the Day of Judgment, and then the second life. With this clear line of life, the Muslim has a clear purpose in life. The Muslim knows he is created by Allah. Muslims know they are going to spend some years in this first life, during which they have to obey God, because God will question them and hold them responsible for their public or private deeds, because Allah knows about all the deeds of all people. The Muslim knows that his deeds in the first life will determine the type of second life they will live in. The Muslim knows that this first life is a very short one, one hundred years, more or less, whereas the second life is an eternal one.
The Eternity of the Second Life
The concept of the eternity of the second life has a tremendous effect on a Muslims during their first life, because Muslims believe that their first life determines the shape of their second life. In addition, this determines the shape of their second life and this determination will be through the Judgment of Allah, the All just and Almighty.
With this belief in the second life and the Day of Judgment, the Muslim's life becomes purposeful and meaningful. Moreover, the Muslim's standing purpose is to go to Paradise in the second life.
In other words, the Muslim's permanent purpose is to obey Allah, to submit to Allah, to carry out His orders, and to keep in continues contact with Him through prayers (five times a day), through 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 in sex, eating, and dancing. But all these purposes are transient and 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, food and sex cannot answer the individual's questions: so what? Then What?
However, Islam saves Muslims from the trouble of asking the question, because Islam makes it clear, from the very beginning, that the permanent purpose of the Muslim in this life is to obey Allah in order to go to Paradise in the second life.
We should know that the only way for our salvation in this life and in the hereafter is to know our Lord who created us, believe in Him, and worship Him alone.
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Post #2
Sura3 3:64: “Verily Allah has cursed the Unbelievers (whom he defined as Christians in the 5th surah “Believers, take not Jews and Christians for your friends.) and has prepared for them a Blazing Fire to dwell in forever. No protector will they find, nor savior. That Day their faces will be turned upside down in the Fire. They will say: ‘Woe to us! We should have obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!’ ‘Our Lord! Give them double torment and curse them with a very great Curse!’�
Post #3
Contrary to other religions that offer heaven by good works and Christianity that offers it for free to those who believe and follow Jesus Christ, a obedient Muslim can not be sure of his hereafter having not died in Jihad. Only then Muslims are offered a palace; in it are 72 mansions with 72 homes with 72 sheets on 72 beds with 72 virgins that never lose their virginity. Mohammed said, “The person who participates in (Holy Battles) in Allah's cause and nothing compels him to do so except belief in Allah and His Apostle, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to paradise (if he is killed).� (Al Bukhari vol. 1:35.) “They [true believers] will sit with bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches� (Sura 37:48). This gives us insight into their denial of this life and being rewarded in the next. The promise of heaven to those who die in battle for the cause of Allah is quite a promise.
Post #5
THe only aim of Islam is to control people. Muhammad had no faith in the Bible, or anything truthful, compassionate, and holy. I've met many people like him. The New Testament talks of a false prophet that lies about Jesus. And Muhammad fits the bill. It is God's compassion for all of mankind that Muhammad abstructs, and God's fury is very much understood. And all of the "moderate" Islammists that insist that the evil of all the terrorism has nothing to do with the religion, when in FACT, the "religion" is very Nazi-like, very hateful and violent. It's all right there, and you turn a blind eye, living in denial, covering up for the most evil of monsters ever to rampage against the world. It's a cover-up. Islam is is a grave threat to all of humanity.
Post #6
Prophecy . We know where God stands because of prophecy. THe vision and the Revelation of God.I have faith in my visions. Christians have them all the time. It's how God points us. Muhammad's "teachings" leans against believing in the Holy Spirit, or anything supernatural. He did nothing supernatural, he taught against the supernatural. He was all about the booty and sex slaves, That's what his aim was. What do YOU think about visions and revelations like that in the NT? Oh, that's right, you are under command of Muhammad and aren't allowed to have an educated opinion. He is all the" education" you need.
Post #7
Muhammad did make it seem like it was the supernatural that faked Christ's death and ressurection. So all Jesus needed to do was lie about it to make it LOOK like he suffered and die. That is Muhammad's version of the "supernatural". It's all about smoke and mirrors. So I guess he talked of miracles, fake as they were. But the usage of prophecy was not taught at all. He did mention something about having devillish visions that possibly inspired him to write the Koran. THat seems to be an instance where an evil spirit came to him to hatch the idea. The manifistation of the mere idea came in the form of what it was. Evil. That is being led by the spirit, evil as it was, it was a spirit.
Post #8
Just goes to show, that evil ideas can pop up in strange ways. But it is up to us to do the right thing. When an evil spirit comes to you, see it for what it is and don't absorb the idea and bring the spiritual force into the physical realm. Muhammad really dropped the ball on that one. He absorbed it fully. He lived it. I guess it'a an easy thing to do for a person that lacks faith and compassion. Why would it bother him? It's ok for him to lie. He don't give a squat and niether does "God".
Post #9
I tend to think that Muhammad's vision of the Devil was just a part of the manifestation of the evil plan Muhammad was plotting. I think the vision could be seen as a warning to him that he didn't listen to. He didn't have faith in visions. jmo
Post #10
I just researched the whole chest squeezing "encounter" Muhammad had in the cave. Assumming Muhammad wasn't lying about the vision, which I wouldn't put past him for a second, it looks like the alleged vision was what gave Muhammad the idea to write the Koran. He thought the vision came from the Devil, and that he might have been possessed by the Devil when the "encounter" happened.
But it doesn't do a whole lot of good for me to research what Muhammad says, since he was a man who would knowingly lie. It's a fool's game to try and figure out anything a lyer would say for attention, or political gain. Like a dirty gossip magazine, the Koran isn't worth anything but linning a birdcage.
But it doesn't do a whole lot of good for me to research what Muhammad says, since he was a man who would knowingly lie. It's a fool's game to try and figure out anything a lyer would say for attention, or political gain. Like a dirty gossip magazine, the Koran isn't worth anything but linning a birdcage.
