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Who deserves to be Worshiped ?

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2. THE PURPOSE OF CREATION<br />

Have you ever wondered why we exist? What is the reason for our existence? Have<br />

you ever wondered why we die, and where we will go after death? What will happen<br />

<strong>to</strong> us in the end? Have you ever asked yourself why Allah has made the earth, and<br />

all that is in it, subservient <strong>to</strong> human <strong>be</strong>ings? Why were the night and the day, and<br />

the sun and the moon created? What are we supposed <strong>to</strong> do during our lifetime?<br />

Were we created just <strong>to</strong> eat, drink and enjoy ourselves <strong>be</strong>fore we die? A poet has<br />

summarized this timeless question:<br />

I do not know whence I have come.<br />

I saw my feet walking on the road.<br />

As they please I go and s<strong>to</strong>p.<br />

What am I doing here?<br />

How did the road find me?<br />

I do not know! I do not know! I do not know!<br />

Allah has emphasized in many verses of the Quran that He did not create human<br />

<strong>be</strong>ings without a purpose. He has said:<br />

{Then did you think that We created you uselessly and that <strong>to</strong> Us you would not <strong>be</strong><br />

returned?} (Quran 23: 115)<br />

{Does humankind think that it will <strong>be</strong> left neglected?} (Quran 75: 36)<br />

{Do the people think that they will <strong>be</strong> left <strong>to</strong> say: We <strong>be</strong>lieve—and they will not <strong>be</strong><br />

tried?} (Quran 29: 2)<br />

It is clear from these verses that human <strong>be</strong>ings were not created without a<br />

purpose. This purpose has <strong>be</strong>en mentioned clearly in another verse that says:<br />

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