Why?!
The answer to "Why God created us" is "so that we serve and worship Him". This is a very true and accurate answer because it is mentioned in the Qur'an (51:56). However often those who dare to ask more fundamental questions go beyond this and ask, 'why God creates at all, why He created us to be His servants and Worship Him and what is the point of sending messengers and sending people to heaven and hell'.
This is an attempt to answer this very briefly:
A. God creates things because He is Creator, he is full of 'being' and He spreads this 'being' by creating. He would have not been a perfect being if he would have not created. To bring this close to mind, consider, how would you rate a perfume that does not spread the good odor or a light that does not brighten up its surrounding. (59:24)
B. Being a perfect Creator, God also creates a creature that can reach a degree of perfection that qualifies him to be as close as possible to God, Who is the source of perfection. This creature is human being (as far as we concern, one may add Jinns to this as well). Human being can reach this perfection by acting and remaining as a servant of God. By being a servant of the Almighty human being will naturally assume the same good features that his Creator likes and as the result he can purify himself from anything that is against that level of perfection that he is supposed to achieve. (51:56, 95:4, 87:14, 15).
C. To reach that perfection in his acts as the servant of God, Human being needs some tools. These tools are given to him. These are 'having a reasonable ability to think and choose' and 'being in a challenging environment'. The combination of these two provides the human being an opportunity to show its best potentials and reach the level of perfection that was intended for him (33:72, 67:2).
D. Exactly due to this situation, human being can also misuse the authority given to him and knowingly make the wrong choices. In this case instead of reaching that perfect state, he will be descending into the worst possible state. This is only due to his own choice. On the other hand those who honesty try to reach that perfection by having faith and doing righteous deeds will be successful (47:12).
E. Despite the fact that by nature human being knows God and is able to distinguish between good and evil and despite the clear evidences that are available to him in the life and in the nature, God has also sent special and specific guidance for human being in the form of messengers. These messengers have the mission of reminding human beings of the truth and their duties and to show the human beings a path to follow in the form of religion so that they could purify themselves (2:151)
F. God, with His limitless mercy has made Rahmah (compassion) the core element of his relationship with His creation. Accordingly He shows the most flexible and merciful attitude to those who deserve it and does not expect absolute perfection from people. An honest attempt is good enough to leave the rest for the Almighty (6:12, 39:53, 3:77).
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March 2013
This is an attempt to answer this very briefly:
A. God creates things because He is Creator, he is full of 'being' and He spreads this 'being' by creating. He would have not been a perfect being if he would have not created. To bring this close to mind, consider, how would you rate a perfume that does not spread the good odor or a light that does not brighten up its surrounding. (59:24)
B. Being a perfect Creator, God also creates a creature that can reach a degree of perfection that qualifies him to be as close as possible to God, Who is the source of perfection. This creature is human being (as far as we concern, one may add Jinns to this as well). Human being can reach this perfection by acting and remaining as a servant of God. By being a servant of the Almighty human being will naturally assume the same good features that his Creator likes and as the result he can purify himself from anything that is against that level of perfection that he is supposed to achieve. (51:56, 95:4, 87:14, 15).
C. To reach that perfection in his acts as the servant of God, Human being needs some tools. These tools are given to him. These are 'having a reasonable ability to think and choose' and 'being in a challenging environment'. The combination of these two provides the human being an opportunity to show its best potentials and reach the level of perfection that was intended for him (33:72, 67:2).
D. Exactly due to this situation, human being can also misuse the authority given to him and knowingly make the wrong choices. In this case instead of reaching that perfect state, he will be descending into the worst possible state. This is only due to his own choice. On the other hand those who honesty try to reach that perfection by having faith and doing righteous deeds will be successful (47:12).
E. Despite the fact that by nature human being knows God and is able to distinguish between good and evil and despite the clear evidences that are available to him in the life and in the nature, God has also sent special and specific guidance for human being in the form of messengers. These messengers have the mission of reminding human beings of the truth and their duties and to show the human beings a path to follow in the form of religion so that they could purify themselves (2:151)
F. God, with His limitless mercy has made Rahmah (compassion) the core element of his relationship with His creation. Accordingly He shows the most flexible and merciful attitude to those who deserve it and does not expect absolute perfection from people. An honest attempt is good enough to leave the rest for the Almighty (6:12, 39:53, 3:77).
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March 2013
