3. What is the purpose of life?
How to know God
-Reason, Knowledge
To receive and Experience Attributes of
God
-Is this life a test?
-Forgiveness
-Response of God
4. There are two aims:
- 1st to recognize the True
Bestower and offer God thanks
and worship.
- 2nd is to know the experience
the Divine Attributes of God in
the world, and by experiencing
them, to believe in them.
Through these two basic aims,
human becomes a true human
being.
5. The wonders of creation, such as the gestation
of animals, the movement of heavenly bodies,
atmospheric phenomena, the variety of animal
and vegetable life so marvelously well
adopted to human needs. All those things are
signs for those of insight (3:190)
‘’He who created the eye of mosquito
is the one who created the sun’’.
6. Do they not travel through the
land, so that their hearts may
thus learn wisdom? (26:7)
Do they not examine the earth?
(26:7)
Do they not look at the sky
above them? (50:6)
7. The very first revelation:
Read, in the name of your Lord, who created-
created human from tiny thing that clings.
Read, for your Lord is the Most Bountiful, who
taught the use of the pen, taught human what
he did not know. (96:1-5)
The use of pen: KNOWLEDGE
8. We are pursue them not only to make the
world a better place
“When I have fashioned human, breathed into
him of My spirit”
We grow in our ability to receive and
experience God’s mercy, forgiveness,
compassion, justice, righteousness and love.
We build a strong personal relationship with
God.
9. We are tested in this world so that we may
become
-clarified
-purified
-attain virtue and perfection
through our choice (free will)
We find trials and tests in every aspect of our
lives.
10. O My servants who have sinned against
yourselves, never dispair of God’s mercy.
Surely God forgives all sins. He is the Most
forgiving the Most Merciful. (39:53)
11. “Call on Me, I shell answer you’’
‘’When you approach God by an arm’s
length, He approaches you by two,
and if you come to Him walking,
He comes to you running’’. (Hadith,
saying of Muhammad (S.A.W) )