Life.... What is is?
Everyone around is busy in finding the answer to this question. But it appears that no one has been really able to find an exact answer (No answer is exact for that matter).
For some people life is an adventurous journey with exciting twists on every turn whilst for others life is nature's revenge for the deeds we don't know we did. For some people life is an exam whilst for others life is just a name of helping others by sharing their griefs and sorrows
Well to me the last one means somewhat reasonable, as a poet has very well said;
درد دل کے واسطے پیدا کیا انسان کو
ورنہ طاعت کے لیے کچھ کم نہ تھے کروبیاں
The verses mean that the Almighty Lord Allah created human just to help his fellow human beings. Had they been merely created for worshiping him then weren't the angels and other creation enough for that.
This means that apart from worshiping Allah Almighty there is another purpose for our existence, for the life of human beings.
So what do we do when we have got a purpose, a goal?
Don't we try to accomplish our goals and fulfill our duties which we are bound to perform due to our existence, our lives.
So from my viewpoint the purpose of our lives is defined above. People may and will definitely argue but I am satisfied by the above set purpose of life i.e;
( i ) Worshiping our Almighty Lord, Allah tabarak wa ta'alah. (no escape from this duty whatever the circumstances might be)
( ii ) Helping our fellow beings, all the human beings who need our help, whether morally or financially, the former being of more significance though. ( This should not be escaped)
Everyone around is busy in finding the answer to this question. But it appears that no one has been really able to find an exact answer (No answer is exact for that matter).
For some people life is an adventurous journey with exciting twists on every turn whilst for others life is nature's revenge for the deeds we don't know we did. For some people life is an exam whilst for others life is just a name of helping others by sharing their griefs and sorrows
Well to me the last one means somewhat reasonable, as a poet has very well said;
درد دل کے واسطے پیدا کیا انسان کو
ورنہ طاعت کے لیے کچھ کم نہ تھے کروبیاں
The verses mean that the Almighty Lord Allah created human just to help his fellow human beings. Had they been merely created for worshiping him then weren't the angels and other creation enough for that.
This means that apart from worshiping Allah Almighty there is another purpose for our existence, for the life of human beings.
So what do we do when we have got a purpose, a goal?
Don't we try to accomplish our goals and fulfill our duties which we are bound to perform due to our existence, our lives.
So from my viewpoint the purpose of our lives is defined above. People may and will definitely argue but I am satisfied by the above set purpose of life i.e;
( i ) Worshiping our Almighty Lord, Allah tabarak wa ta'alah. (no escape from this duty whatever the circumstances might be)
( ii ) Helping our fellow beings, all the human beings who need our help, whether morally or financially, the former being of more significance though. ( This should not be escaped)
