Hum Kyon Hain?

May 30, 2015

There are times when I ask random people 'Hum kyon hain?' No one takes the question seriously and I don't really expect an answer. 

But somehow, this question puzzles me so much that there are nights thinking about the same question and there are times when I say things to my friends like 'yaaar mar jana hai' and 'mar he jana hai to kuch kyon karna hai' based on same thought. I have failed to accept that the purpose of our existence is just to go to school, then college, university, sit in front of a computer 9am-5pm, get married, have kids and live rest of our lives worrying about raising kids on the same pattern. 

Anyhow, I have enrolled for Tafseer course (Translation and explanation of Quran) and one of the reasons I am doing this is to know why do we exist. This blog is about different verses from Quran, which I believe will be helpful for me to understand the purpose of our creation. I will keep updating this as I study more. Inshallah.

O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you...[2:23-24]

And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority." They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?" Allah said, "Indeed, I know that which you do not know. [2:30]

...And We said, "Go down, [all of you], as enemies to one another, and you will have upon the earth a place of settlement and provision for a time." [2:36]

For each is a direction toward which it faces. So race to [all that is] good.Wherever you may be, Allah will bring you forth [for judgement] all together. [2:148]

And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient. [2:155]

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June 3, 2015

When I read above mentioned verse [2:148] about racing to all that is good, I kept thinking that 'good' is one vague word, and only if there was some verse which clearly stated what is 'good', and so today I read following verse.

...righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah , the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle...[2:177]

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Sep 11, 2015

Indeed, your Lord is Allah , who created the heavens and the earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne, arranging the matter [of His creation]. There is no intercessor except after His permission. That is Allah , your Lord, so worship Him. Then will you not remember? [10:3]

It is He who made the sun a shining light and the moon a derived light and determined for it phases - that you may know the number of years and account [of time]. Allah has not created this except in truth. He details the signs for a people who know. [10:5]

Indeed, in the alternation of the night and the day and [in] what Allah has created in the heavens and the earth are signs for a people who fear Allah. [10:6]

Then We made you successors in the land after them so that We may observe how you will do. [10:14]

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Sep 22, 2015

And it is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days - and His Throne had been upon water - that He might test you as to which of you is best in deed.. [11:7]

And if your Lord had willed, He could have made mankind one community; but they will not cease to differ.Except whom your Lord has given mercy, and for that He created them... [11:118-119]

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Oct 31, 2015

Indeed, We have made that which is on the earth adornment for it that We may test them [as to] which of them is best in deed. [18:7]

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Feb 14, 2016

Surah Baqarah, verse 30 stated that Allah made men successor on earth. I recently read in Surah Sad, verse 26 that Allah made Dawood A.S. successor upon earth and being a successor he was asked to judge between people based on truth instead of following his own desires while doing so. This tells us about one of the duties as successors we have to perform in this world.

"O David, indeed We have made you a successor upon the earth, so judge between the people in truth and do not follow [your own] desire, as it will lead you astray from the way of Allah ." [38:26]

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March 7, 2016

"And Allah created the heavens and earth in truth and so that every soul may be recompensed for what it has earned, and they will not be wronged. ." [45:22]

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March 28, 2016

And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me. [51:56]

And to Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth - that He may recompense those who do evil with [the penalty of] what they have done and recompense those who do good with the best [reward] - [53:31]

Believe in Allah and His Messenger and spend out of that in which He has made you successors. For those who have believed among you and spent, there will be a great reward. [57:7]

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April 6, 2016

[He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving -  [67:2]

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April 19, 2016

Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing.Indeed, We guided him to the way, be he grateful or be he ungrateful.  [76:2-3]