Why Were We Created?

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, amisb65 wrote:
What you are about to read might sound unusual but it could be very
enlightened
God (Allah) said in the Holy Quran :
... I only created jinn and man to worship Me. (Surat adh-Dhariyat: 56)
"Why does Allah want us to worship Him?"
Now if we are to look initially into revelation, to determine why was
man created, there is a deeper question that we should be asking
before that: "Why did God create?". This before we even get to man
because man is not the greatest act of creation. Allah says:
"The creation of the Heavens and the Earth is indeed greater then the
creation of mankind; yet, most of mankind know not." [Surah Ghafir,
verse 57]
Man is not the greatest act of creation, this universe is far more
complex and far more magnificent than man. So the issue of creation
should then go to, "Why did God create?", as opposed to simply, "Why
create man?".
Human beings don't really create, they manipulate, because they can
only "create" what already exists. When we make a chair or a table, we
didn't create the wood, we had to take it from a tree, we didn't
create the ****l, which makes the screws etc, we had to melt down
rocks and take the ****l out. So we are not creating from nothing. We
are manipulating things which Allah has already created in to
different shapes and forms which are useful to us. We call it
"creation" but the real act of creation, is creation from nothing, and
this is unique to Allah alone.
There is another aspect, besides the fact that the creation exists
because Allah is the creator. We can also see from what prophet
Mohammad pbuh has informed us, that in the creation there is
manifestation of Allah's attributes of mercy, forgiveness, kindness
etc etc. Allah created man in paradise, they disobeyed Allah, but
Allah had taught them how to repent, how to turn back to him and seek
his forgiveness, then he would forgive them. Having done that, they
were forgiven, Adam became the first prophet, and mankind was absolved
of that sin. The story of Adam and Eve is the story of human
existence. Human beings are given a consciousness of Allah. When Allah
created all human beings, as he states in the Qur'an, he took from
Adam (Adam) all of his descendents, and made them all bear witness
that Allah is their Lord. So we are all born with that consciousness.
He has also given us a consciousness of what is right and what is
wrong.
we were created in a means or a way in which Allah has chosen to
manifest his attributes of creation, mercy, grace etc and he could
have chosen another one. But relative to us as human beings, we know
that our purpose is to worship Allah. Allah does not need our worship,
a Allah didn't need to create. When he created us to worship him, he
didn't create us, out of a need for our worship, because Allah has no
needs. In a famous hadith qudsi in which Allah says;
If all of you, jinn and mankind, were to worship like the most
righteous amongst you, it would not increase the dominion of Allah in
any way shape or form. And if all of us, jinn and mankind ...
Therefore when we look for the purpose of worship, we have to look
into man. Allah created us to worship him, because we need to worship
him. It is something he has given us as a means of benefiting
ourselves. We are the ones who benefit from it. Worship has been
established, fundamentally for the growth, the spiritual growth of
man. This growth takes place through the remembrance of Allah. When
you look at all the different aspects of worship, you will see the
core of it is focused on the remembrance of Allah.
"Establish the prayer for My remembrance."
Allah has said that he has created us to test us, to see which of us
is best in deeds. He is not testing us to know, in the sense that he
doesn't already know, but this world is a test for us in order again
that we can grow spiritually.
We cannot develop this spiritual characteristic of generosity unless
some of us have more then others and then we are required to give of
the wealth we have. When we give, we grow. Similarly, if we were not
in a position where others had more then us then we wouldn't have the
ability to develop the higher spiritual quality of *******ment,
patience, satisfaction in what Allah has given us.
So it is all there in order to bring out the higher spiritual
qualities, which enable us to attain the state, which makes us
suitable and eligible to return to paradise. The paradise from which
we were created, we were created in paradise and for paradise. Through
our choices we have left, in this life, a field of testing, where we
can grow to a state where we deserve paradise.
The purpose of this life is the worship of Allah, this life is a test.
A test for us, will we worship Allah, or will we forget Him. This is
where our focus has to begin.
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Let's start by discussing how many stars brighter than magnitude ~5
have Arabic names? I know plenty of them do. Wonder what the actual
percentage is? And look at the overwhelming popularity of the Greek
Lots, better known to astronomers today as Arabic Parts? These are
important to Theist astronomers today, and have been for millennia.
Here is a text list for almost 1000 J2000 stars archived on Google:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...eotep-frog.org
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...eotep-frog.org

There are a lot of Arabic names in there. My favorite is al-debaran.

Reply To Group,
Daniel Joseph Min
http://www.angelfire.com/moon2/danieljosephmin/

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