A person must realize that he has a higher purpose and goal in this life.

GIVEN all of these special characteristics, the human should

realize that he has a special and noble purpose and goal in this life.

Analogous to the arguments given about the wisdom behind the

creation of the cosmos, the creation of humans and the special

characteristics that humans possess should make each human realize

that the Creator is too wise and lofty to create him simply for sport.

Indeed, even more than that, the great Creator who created

all the cosmos and the humans—the One who provided even the most

detailed needs of the miraculous human anatomy and who is also the

Compassionate and Merciful—would not leave humans without

guidance and without ordering them and showing them what to do or

what not to do. Thus, rhetorically,

Hence, the human should realize that his actions in this life

have a real ramification to them. In this sense, nothing that he does is

meaningless or without consequences. His life has purpose here and

the Creator is ever aware of every action, thought, intention and

movement that he makes.

It is extremely important for the human to realize this point,

that he has a purpose in this life. Indeed, this realization may be the

first step along a change of life in which one turns to his Great and

Wonderful Creator, to submit to Him willfully. Without realizing this

fact, there may be no need, meaning or purpose to behaving in a

specific manner. If nothing truly matters and if nothing is morally

wrong or right, since there is no God or real purpose to existence

it is expected for people to behave in any fashion they wish. When a

person’s eyes are open to the reality of this creation, his purpose and

role in it, theoretically speaking, there should be a great and profound

effect on his life.

Furthermore, as Karzoon noted,

When a person becomes heedless of his goal for

which he was created and the role that he has been

given, he becomes busy with other goals… This

changes them [that is, such people] from their

essential human nature and position by which Allah

honored them. Due to this, contradiction and

confusion occurs in the make-up of the human. The

human is then dragged into two different directions:

the direction of the spirit (rooh) and the direction of

the body.

Karzoon then notes that the only w ay to make those two

aspects compatible is via the teachings of Islam. It is these teachings

alone that can properly and in a balanced manner fulfill the needs of

both the spirit and the body. Ignoring that purpose and that path is

what leads to the kind of society that exists today, wherein a primary

goal is the meeting of the desires while greater and more important

ethical and moral issues and needs are being ignored.

At this point, it is worthwhile to discuss some other views of

humans and human nature, views that clearly and unequivocally

contradict the Islamic view of humankind.

The first view is that humans are simply some kind of

purposeless, accidental, material being that has appeared without a

Creator. The leading existentialists such as Sartre and Camus taught

the absurdity or meaningless of life and every action. Others have

also expressed this approach to life. Jacques Monod, Noble Prize

winning physician who died in 1976, stated

Man knows, at last, that he is alone in the

indifferent immensity of the universe in which he

emerged by chance. He knows now that, like a

gypsy, he is marginal to the universe in which he

lives: a universe that is deaf to his music and

indifferent to his hopes, his suffering, and his

crimes.

See you in the next blog to complete the book.

Sources :-

A book for calling people to Islam in English is the book .

"What is Islam?" by Jamaal Zarabozo .

A piece of advice and an invitation from a well-wisher for you .

I invite you, my dear brother, to Islam and to believe in God Almighty. He alone is worthy of worship. The purpose of our creation is to worship God alone, without any partners.