for me I'm nmal Raj um I was told by my
Muslim friends that um God created us to
worship him um and those people who are
worshiping him they'll go to heaven and
those who are not worshiping him they'll
be passed into the hell and my doubt is
that is that our whole purpose of life
is only to worship God or do our life
have some other purpose and if so what
is the actual purpose of our life
life
when the Quran states
that God created Allah created human
beings and the spirit world we know is
the
Gin solely for worshiping
him that means that for Muslims to
Muslim belief that is the essential
purpose of life to worship God but we
have to ask
ourselves what do we mean by worship see
if we think of
worship as uh merely calling on God and
asking him when we have a need then that
is not what is meant by the statement
that we were created to worship
God what is meant is that we live all of
our
lives in accordance with his will in
doing so we are worshiping so worship
includes all aspects of life from the
time you get up in the
morning how you function how you clean
yourself how you deal with your family
how you deal at work in all aspects of
your life to you go to bed at night you
when you go back to sleep all of that
becomes worship if you do it in
accordance with what God has prescribed
for you so that way of life which God
has prescribed which transforms all of
your acts into
worship that way of life brings out
from the human
being the best makes him or
her the best that he or she can be so
that's the idea that is the goal behind
it so this life being this world being a
transition
World We believe that there is a greater
life to come the everlasting life this
life is a limited life we're born at a
certain point we die at a certain point
so this is a transitional world the
state of our world to come depends on
this life depends on us living this life
in the way which God wanted us to live
the life if we do so we earn the better
life in the life to come if we don't
then we lose that
so
worship enables us to achieve the goal
of this life or the purpose of the life
that we're
living is that
clear you have a followup on it go
ahead I'm satisfied with their answer um
but one one doubt is what does he expect
out of us why should he create such a
test to
us the issue of what does he expect of
us that is the religion that is the way
of life which he has prescribed for us
that's what he expects of us to
live to our utmost
potential in good and in goodness and in
righteousness that is what is expected
of us why did he create us and expect
that of us
he is the
creator being the Creator he
created you don't ask the painter why
you
painted in the same where you don't ask
the Creator why he
created right there's a point of
questioning where we accept well this is
one of the attributes of the one God who
rules this world he is the Creator and
he created us he chose this life for us
because it was what was best for
us those who follow his instructions
and do what is required then this life
becomes in fact best for us those
who follow a life of their own choice
enjoy here
re disregard the instructions of God
then this life will be a source of
Torment for us in the
next yes can I ask a question can I ask
a question can I ask a rhetorical
question this means you don't have to
answer me but I just want to ask it as a
rhetorical question because it came to
me while you were speaking really you
know I'm I'm kind of a country boy and
sometimes I hear big answers I really
like like them but then I like to as we
say in Texas put the hay down where the
goats can eat it so I have it came in my
mind we would I I guess you believe in
God right okay yeah so if you believe in
God do you believe God is great and he's
uh just wonderful and he's much better
than a human right yeah so uh God is not
we can't compare him to us right or
wrong but still I'm going to ask you if
you have an employer you have a job
right you have a job well I hope you get
one okay but anyway if you have a job
right you have an employer God is much
bigger as the owner of the universe than
your employer is of the business right
right but if I'm working in a company I
can't imagine I would ever go to my
employer and say why did you hire
me that'd be a real dumb question and
likewise if I'm not going to compare the
Creator to my employer I would never ask
a why did you create me but yet he gave
us the answer even though even though he
said I only have this purpose for you
you and that is that you spend your way
of
life according to my Commandments What
I've have said for you now I don't know
if you know anything about Christianity
I grew up in that so perhaps it may not
make any sense to you you know to talk
about that but in Christianity it's the
same thing really that you can't go go
to heaven unless you follow the
Commandments of Allah perhaps your
religion has some rules too and if you
don't follow those you can get in
trouble am I right so likewise here's
the same thing he's saying by doing what
I ask you to do that's the right life
following that is all considered worship
for the Muslim even when I go to my wife
for intimate relation I'm getting reward
from Allah when the prophet peace be
upon him said this to one of his comp
some companions one of me said what but
I like to do that he said so but if you
did it with some other woman it would be
illegal you'd get punished right he said
yeah so if you are with your own wife
you'll get reward they said he went home
immediately alhamdulillah anyhow I hope
you got some benefit from our sh today
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