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Why were we Created?
Author: Bilâl Philips
All praise is due to Allâh and may His peace and blessings be upon his last Messenger sallallâh
'alayhi wa sallam and on all those who follow the path of righteousness until the last day.
We have to answer the most fundamental question that every human being asks himself at som
point in his or her lifetime. Not just Muslims, but every single human being.
"Why was I created? Why am I here? What am I doing in this world? Why did God
create me?"
These questions, are questions which each and everyone of us reflects on at some point during thei
life. We have some answers, which are given generally, but usually these answers don’t satisfy us
they seem somewhat simplistic. We still wonder. "Why me? Why here?" I know all of you, generall
speaking, in the back of your mind, you are saying "to worship Allâh, khallas (finish), what more i
there to say? Why do we need to have a big long talk on why we were created, when we all know it i
to worship Allâh?" But wait, if this is presented to a non-Muslim, the next logical question would be
"why does Allâh want us to worship Him?" and then your stuck.
It means, in our own minds it is not really clear to us. Why did Allâh create us to worship Him?
The question, why did Allâh create us, for some people, and we have to deal with those peopl
around us, who don’t consider there to be any purpose in man’s creation because he is just
product of evolution that the forces of nature have produced him, and just as we don’t have apes
dogs or cows thinking about why they are here, then we don’t really have to think about it either. O
course that being the basis of the philosophy of western society, that man is without purpose, the
the whole issue of government, morality etc has no basis in Revelation, there is no guidance there
The product of this is of course the corruption that we are living in.
For a Muslim, when we go in to this topic, we have to find our understanding in divine revelatio
and not human speculation. Because human speculation has no bounds, we can imagine all kinds o
things, and is any of you have studied philosophy of religion, you can see how many opinions exis
about the creation of man and existence. Because of the variety of philosophies, which are out there
no one can say this one is correct or that one is incorrect, because there is no guidance behind it. N
divine revelation. It is only from divine revelation that we can determine the reality of our creation
because it is Allâh who has created us and he knows the purpose of our creation. We can hardl
understand ourselves, much less try to understand the essence of things. So it is for Allâh to inform
us through the revelation in the Qur'ân and the Sunnah which was brought by his last Messenge
sallallâhu 'alayhi wa sallam and the Messengers before. Now if we are to look, initially int
revelation, to determine why was man created, there is a deeper question that we should be askin
before that. "Why did God create?" Before we even get to man, why did god create, because man i
not the greatest act of creation that we should be so focused on why man. No, because Allâh says:
"The creation of the Heavens and the Earth is indeed greater then the
creation of mankind; yet, most of mankind know not." [Sûrah Ghâfir,
verse 57]

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