ISLAM and the AIM of LIFE

What is your purpose in life? What is the rationale behind our life?
Why do we live in this life? These questions frequently intrigue
people who try to find accurate answers.


People provide different answers to these questions. Some people
believe the purpose of life is to accumulate wealth. But one may
wonder: What is the purpose of life after one has collected colossal
amounts of money? What then? What will the purpose be once money is
gathered? If the purpose of life is to gain money, there will be no
purpose after becoming wealthy. And in fact, here lies the problem of
some disbelievers or misbelievers at some stage of their life, when
collecting money is the target of their life. When they have
collected
the money they dreamt of, their life loses its purpose. They suffer
from the panic of nothingness and they live in tension and
restlessness.


Can Wealth Be an Aim?


We often hear of a millionaire committing suicide, sometimes, not the
millionaire himself but his wife, son, or daughter. The question that
poses itself is: Can wealth bring happiness to one's life? In most
cases the answer is NO. Is the purpose of collecting wealth a
standing
purpose? As we know, the five-year old child does not look for
wealth:
a toy for him is equal to a million dollars. The eighteen-year old
adolescent does not dream of wealth because he is busy with more
important things. The ninety-year old man does not care about money;
he is worried more about his health. This proves that wealth cannot
be
a standing purpose in all the stages of the individual's life.


Wealth can do little to bring happiness to a disbeliever, because he/
she is not sure about his fate. A disbeliever does not know the
purpose of life. And if he has a purpose, this purpose is doomed to
be
temporary or self destructive.


What is the use of wealth to a disbeliever if he feels scared of the
end and skeptical of everything. A disbeliever may gain a lot of
money, but will surely lose himself.


Worshipping Allah as an Aim


On the contrary, faith in Allah gives the believer the purpose of
life
that he needs. In Islam, the purpose of life is to worship Allah. The
term "Worship" covers all acts of obedience to Allah.


The Islamic purpose of life is a standing purpose. The true Muslim
sticks to this purpose throughout all the stages of his life, whether
he is a child, adolescent, adult, or an old man.


Worshipping Allah makes life purposeful and meaningful, especially
within the framework of Islam. According to Islam this worldly life
is
just a short stage of our life. Then there is the other life. The
boundary between the first and second life is the death stage, which
is a transitory stage to the second life. The type of life in the
second stage a person deserves depends on his deeds in the first
life.
At the end of the death stage comes the day of judgment. On this day,
Allah rewards or punishes people according to their deeds in the
first
life.


The First Life as an Examination


So, Islam looks at the first life as an examination of man. The death
stage is similar to a rest period after the test, i. e. after the
first life. The Day of Judgment is similar to the day of announcing
the results of the examinees. The second life is the time when each
examinee enjoys or suffers from the outcome of his behavior during
the
test period.


In Islam, the line of life is clear, simple, and logical: the first
life, death, the Day of Judgment, and then the second life. With this
clear line of life, the Muslim has a clear purpose in life. The
Muslim
knows he is created by Allah. Muslims know they are going to spend
some years in this first life, during which they have to obey God,
because God will question them and hold them responsible for their
public or private deeds, because Allah knows about all the deeds of
all people. The Muslim knows that his deeds in the first life will
determine the type of second life they will live in. The Muslim knows
that this first life is a very short one, one hundred years, more or
less, whereas the second life is an eternal one.


The Eternity of the Second Life


The concept of the eternity of the second life has a tremendous
effect
on a Muslims during their first life, because Muslims believe that
their first life determines the shape of their second life. In
addition, this determines the shape of their second life and this
determination will be through the Judgment of Allah, the All just and
Almighty.


With this belief in the second life and the Day of Judgment, the
Muslim's life becomes purposeful and meaningful. Moreover, the
Muslim's standing purpose is to go to Paradise in the second life.


In other words, the Muslim's permanent purpose is to obey Allah, to
submit to Allah, to carry out His orders, and to keep in continues
contact with Him through prayers (five times a day), through fasting
(one month a year), through charity (as often as possible), and
through pilgrimage (once in one's life).


The Need for a Permanent Purpose


Disbelievers have purposes in their lives such as collecting money
and
property, indulging in sex, eating, and dancing. But all these
purposes are transient and passing ones. All these purposes come and
go, go up and down. Money comes and goes. Health comes and goes.
Sexual activities cannot continue forever. All these lusts for money,
food and sex cannot answer the individual's questions: so what? Then
What?


However, Islam saves Muslims from the trouble of asking the question,
because Islam makes it clear, from the very beginning, that the
permanent purpose of the Muslim in this life is to obey Allah in
order
to go to Paradise in the second life.


We should know that the only way for our salvation in this life and
in
the hereafter is to know our Lord who created us, believe in Him, and
worship Him alone.


We should also know our Prophet whom Allah had sent to all mankind,
believe in Him and follow Him. We should, know the religion of truth
which our Lord has commanded us to believe in, and practice it ...


Those in search of truth


Who have an open mind and heart,


Islamic Education Foundation


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On Aug 22, 7:06 am, aassime abdellatif wrote:
ISLAM and the AIM of LIFE

What is your purpose in life? What is the rationale behind our life?
Why do we live in this life? These questions frequently intrigue
people who try to find accurate answers.

People provide different answers to these questions. Some people
believe the purpose of life is to accumulate wealth. But one may
wonder: What is the purpose of life after one has collected colossal
amounts of money? What then? What will the purpose be once money is
gathered? If the purpose of life is to gain money, there will be no
purpose after becoming wealthy. And in fact, here lies the problem of
some disbelievers or misbelievers at some stage of their life, when
collecting money is the target of their life. When they have
collected
the money they dreamt of, their life loses its purpose. They suffer
from the panic of nothingness and they live in tension and
restlessness.

Can Wealth Be an Aim?

We often hear of a millionaire committing suicide, sometimes, not the
millionaire himself but his wife, son, or daughter. The question that
poses itself is: Can wealth bring happiness to one's life? In most
cases the answer is NO. Is the purpose of collecting wealth a
standing
purpose? As we know, the five-year old child does not look for
wealth:
a toy for him is equal to a million dollars. The eighteen-year old
adolescent does not dream of wealth because he is busy with more
important things. The ninety-year old man does not care about money;
he is worried more about his health. This proves that wealth cannot
be
a standing purpose in all the stages of the individual's life.

Wealth can do little to bring happiness to a disbeliever, because he/
she is not sure about his fate. A disbeliever does not know the
purpose of life. And if he has a purpose, this purpose is doomed to
be
temporary or self destructive.

What is the use of wealth to a disbeliever if he feels scared of the
end and skeptical of everything. A disbeliever may gain a lot of
money, but will surely lose himself.

Worshipping Allah as an Aim

On the contrary, faith in Allah gives the believer the purpose of
life
that he needs. In Islam, the purpose of life is to worship Allah. The
term "Worship" covers all acts of obedience to Allah.

The Islamic purpose of life is a standing purpose. The true Muslim
sticks to this purpose throughout all the stages of his life, whether
he is a child, adolescent, adult, or an old man.

Worshipping Allah makes life purposeful and meaningful, especially
within the framework of Islam. According to Islam this worldly life
is
just a short stage of our life. Then there is the other life. The
boundary between the first and second life is the death stage, which
is a transitory stage to the second life. The type of life in the
second stage a person deserves depends on his deeds in the first
life.
At the end of the death stage comes the day of judgment. On this day,
Allah rewards or punishes people according to their deeds in the
first
life.

The First Life as an Examination

So, Islam looks at the first life as an examination of man. The death
stage is similar to a rest period after the test, i. e. after the
first life. The Day of Judgment is similar to the day of announcing
the results of the examinees. The second life is the time when each
examinee enjoys or suffers from the outcome of his behavior during
the
test period.

In Islam, the line of life is clear, simple, and logical: the first
life, death, the Day of Judgment, and then the second life. With this
clear line of life, the Muslim has a clear purpose in life. The
Muslim
knows he is created by Allah. Muslims know they are going to spend
some years in this first life, during which they have to obey God,
because God will question them and hold them responsible for their
public or private deeds, because Allah knows about all the deeds of
all people. The Muslim knows that his deeds in the first life will
determine the type of second life they will live in. The Muslim knows
that this first life is a very short one, one hundred years, more or
less, whereas the second life is an eternal one.

The Eternity of the Second Life

The concept of the eternity of the second life has a tremendous
effect
on a Muslims during their first life, because Muslims believe that
their first life determines the shape of their second life. In
addition, this determines the shape of their second life and this
determination will be through the Judgment of Allah, the All just and
Almighty.

With this belief in the second life and the Day of Judgment, the
Muslim's life becomes purposeful and meaningful. Moreover, the
Muslim's standing purpose is to go to Paradise in the second life.

In other words, the Muslim's permanent purpose is to obey Allah, to
submit to Allah, to carry out His orders, and to keep in continues
contact with Him through prayers (five times a day), through fasting
(one month a year), through charity (as often as possible), and
through pilgrimage (once in one's life).

The Need for a Permanent Purpose

Disbelievers have purposes in their lives such as collecting money
and
property, indulging in sex, eating, and dancing. But all these
purposes are transient and passing ones. All these purposes come and
go, go up and down. Money comes and goes. Health comes and goes.
Sexual activities cannot continue forever. All these lusts for money,
food and sex cannot answer the individual's questions: so what? Then
What?

However, Islam saves Muslims from the trouble of asking the question,
because Islam makes it clear, from the very beginning, that the
permanent purpose of the Muslim in this life is to obey Allah in
order
to go to Paradise in the second life.

We should know that the only way for our salvation in this life and
in
the hereafter is to know our Lord who created us, believe in Him, and
worship Him alone.

We should also know our Prophet whom Allah had sent to all mankind,
believe in Him and follow Him. We should, know the religion of truth
which our Lord has commanded us to believe in, and practice it ...

Those in search of truth

Who have an open mind and heart,

Islamic Education Foundation

Welcome You.

Objectives: -

To Convey the message of Islam

To Educate Muslims about Islam

To keep in close contact with new Muslims.

Activities:

Offering Courses and presenting lectures about Islam in several
languages.

Teaching Islam and Arabic.

Teaching new Muslims to receive the Holy Quran.

Helping Non- Muslims embrace Islam and complete the required
procedures

We advise you visiting :http://www.islam-guide.comhttp://www...-knowledge.com

We willingly recive any inquries at the e-mail :



http://www.islam-qa.com

Or

http://www.islam-online.net

Or

http://www.al-islam.com

Or

http://www.al-sunnah.com/



My purpose in life is to see islam ended, and discredited as the
useless pedophilic cult that it is.

Dave

okay. moment's over.

killfile

Ephesians 2
8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

a gift is something voluntarily transferred by one person to
another without compensation.

9Not of works, lest any man should boast.

10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them.

the only good work we do is the work God hath ordained
that we do.

11Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles
in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is
called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants
of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ.

'nigh' is a greek word meaning, at hand, near, (at hand, unto), ready.

to be ready to be His workmanship so as to speak out loud of how
Christ defeated death so that we will never know death. how Christ
has done all that need be done so that we can be saved.

Romans 8
24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:
for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience
wait for it.

26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know
not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of
the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according
to the will of God.

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

a farmer plants seed with hope of how they will grow and produce.
the farmer is at the time of the planting expressing his faith and
hope in things unseen. the good farmer will also have the patience
to wait for it. the good farmer waits for the seed to sprout and
then he cultivates it with care and love so that it will grow strong
and bring forth good fruit.

1 Timothy 2
3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge
of the truth.

5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus;

6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

7Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the
truth in Christ, and lie not a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and
verity.


God our Saviour Who will have all men to be saved. not a select few or
a chosen lot. all men.

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:48:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



My purpose in life is to see islam ended, and discredited as the
useless pedophilic cult that it is.

Dave


Make that two of us...

aassime abdellatif wrote:
ISLAM and the AIM of LIFE

What is your purpose in life?

To build and fix ****. What's yours?

Shut up, and push the button in your pocket.
JR
Dweller in the cellar


aassime abdellatif wrote:
ISLAM and the AIM of LIFE


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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:10:32 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, Jim
Stewart quickly quoth:

aassime abdellatif wrote:
ISLAM and the AIM of LIFE

What is your purpose in life?

To build and fix ****. What's yours?

To build and fix **** while totally dissing fanatical religious
idiots.

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Keep it small, keep it in a confined area, and keep an eye on it.
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aassime abdellatif wrote:
ISLAM and the AIM of LIFE


Take your "religion of peace" and use it to stop
the radicals...then I'll listen.


technomaNge

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:48:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Aug 22, 7:06 am, aassime abdellatif wrote:
ISLAM and the AIM of LIFE


Half the koran

My purpose in life is to see islam ended, and discredited as the
useless pedophilic cult that it is.

Dave
Then why do you re-broadcast the original post?
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

"cavelamb himself" wrote in message
m...
Ephesians 2
8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

a gift is something voluntarily transferred by one person to
another without compensation.

9Not of works, lest any man should boast.

10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them.

the only good work we do is the work God hath ordained
that we do.

11Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles
in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is
called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants
of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ.

'nigh' is a greek word meaning, at hand, near, (at hand, unto), ready.

to be ready to be His workmanship so as to speak out loud of how
Christ defeated death so that we will never know death. how Christ
has done all that need be done so that we can be saved.

Romans 8
24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:
for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience
wait for it.

26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know
not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of
the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according
to the will of God.

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

a farmer plants seed with hope of how they will grow and produce.
the farmer is at the time of the planting expressing his faith and
hope in things unseen. the good farmer will also have the patience
to wait for it. the good farmer waits for the seed to sprout and
then he cultivates it with care and love so that it will grow strong
and bring forth good fruit.

1 Timothy 2
3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge
of the truth.

5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus;

6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

7Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the
truth in Christ, and lie not a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and
verity.


God our Saviour Who will have all men to be saved. not a select few or
a chosen lot. all men.


Oh great, dueling religions. Let's face it, all of it is a bunch of stinking
bull****. You have to be a child to believe any of these fairy tales. Jesus
vs. Mohammad, God vs. Allah, what a joke. Great stuff for the ignorant
masses that believe in superstition. Meaningless for anyone that really
examines religion objectively. Pick a side; rationality or superstition. I
know, most men pick superstition and that is why it's hard to be rational
because so many are against you. But we persevere anyway.

Hawke

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:39:18 -0600, Alex B. Graham
wrote:

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:48:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



My purpose in life is to see islam ended, and discredited as the
useless pedophilic cult that it is.

Dave


Make that two of us...


Me 3


"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it,
or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't
caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity
isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries
Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate
results." - John Tucci,