Confucianism, Communism, Hindu Mat, Taoism, Buddhism, Zoroastrian
Avasta, Jain Mat, Judaism, Christianity and “Islamic” clergy all have
failed to answer them to their satisfaction. Looking for a convincing
Truth, they would accept the religion that answers their difficult but
most fundamental philosophical questions.
Question 1: We create machines but we know their purpose. What is the
purpose of the Universe’s and our creation?
Question 2: The Muslim Book says that God is not a tyrant, then why
did He give me life and send me here without my consent?
Question 3: Late News: Is my existence real?
Respected Sirs and Madams,
With due respects, let me answer the third question first:
“I think, therefore I am.” René Descartes, France,1596-1650.
“Father of Modern Philosophy”.
Can we think? YES, Absolutely! So, our existence is real. Agreed
respected audience? YES! Thanks a lot! Needless to say that the Quran
cites the actual creation of mankind at many places. (e.g. 2:30-31).
Our existence is indeed real and NOT a dream.
Now, can we move on by the process of elimination, honorables? – YES,
YES! – Thanks a lot!
“Science can tell what is. It cannot tell what ought to
be.” (Einstein)
So, we have to turn to religion then.
Zoroastrianism believes in Duality of God and it is a religion without
any Divine Plan. Yazdan (the god of good) and Ahraman (the god of
evil) are in perpetual fight, one dominating the other turn by turn.
So, Zoroastrianism can give us no Purpose of life.
EXISTENCE
TO NON-EXISTENCE: Hindu Mat, Taoism, Buddhism and Jain Mat consider the
human soul stuck and soiled in matter. They consider
freedom from the world of matter as the ultimate salvation or Mukti,
call it Nirvana. According to these religions, the objective of we
humans is to break through the matter by self-denial and even self-
infliction and get out of the cyclical rebirth of life (Reincarnation).
Denouncing this material world completely is the only choice we have.
Can you really do it dear Sirs, Madams? Some of their philosophers
maintain that doing good deeds will grant us freedom from the eternal
cycle of rebirth or Reincarnation and help us achieve Nirvana, or at
least, get reborn in a better form. But what can a handicapped person
or, let us say, a mouse do to achieve a better form of life in the next
birth or to attain this Mukti or Salvation?
Amazingly, the Quran teaches us a linear, ascending, and not cyclical
mechanism of life.
11:56 … Indeed, my Lord is on the straight path.
90:12 Ah, what will convey to you what that Ascent is!
90:13 Freeing others from bondage, physical or mental, and from any
social, economic or political oppression.
90:14 Feeding in times of hunger, famine, wars and natural disasters.
90:15 Taking special care of those who, despite being a part of the
community, feel left out.
90:16 Helping him who remains needy though he toils in the dust.
Judaism: Paradise is your birth right if you are Jewish. How’s that?
Christianity: Jesus died for my sins, so that’s that! I am a free
bird, free of all accountability.
Respected friends, Greetings of Peace!
Now to other address the two basic questions:
Question 1: We create machines but we know their purpose. What is the
purpose of the Universe’s and our creation?
Question 2: The Muslim Book says that God is not a tyrant, then why
did He give me life and send me here without my consent?
Honorable Ones! Contrary to the dogmas we have seen in the previous
post, here we will explore the Purpose of the creation of the Universe
and then creation of individuals primarily in the light of the Quran..
Before embarking on the Quran’s Spaceship, imagine the wonderful
flight. The free ride we are in, effectively dismisses a Godless
Universe.
The Universe is the creation of a Master Mathematician who neither
errs nor makes any exceptions. (Galileo Galilei)
The Universe is too organized to be the result of an accident. (Albert
Einstein)
A tornado hitting a junk yard will not end up producing a Boeing 747.
(Shabbir Ahmed)
In order to make an apple-pie from scratch, we would have to reinvent
the Universe! (Carl Sagan)
64:3 … He created the heavens and earth in truth and with a Sublime
purpose.
There is a coherent plan in the Universe, though I don’t know what
it’s a plan for. (British astronomer, author, Sir Fred Hoyle)
But God knows the Purpose. It is ongoing evolution. Just as you
industrialists keep on evolving your technology, so does God. He even
keeps expanding the Universe.
51:47 And it is We Who built the Universe with power, and certainly,
it is We Who are steadily expanding it. [Samaa = Sky = Heaven =
Allegorically the Universe. Bi-Ayidin = With both hands = With power.
The expansion of the Universe was first proposed by the Belgian
cosmologist Georges Lemaitre and the Russian scientist A. Friemann. In
1929, it was observed for the first time by the American astronomer
Edwin Hubble. The Quran had given us this knowledge 14 centuries ago!
55:5, 36:38-40]
1:4 (He is) the Absolute Owner of the Day when all creation shall have
completed their journey of existence, action and evolution to the
Ultimate Just outcome.
Evolution continues in the second life:
84:19 That you will traverse higher and higher from one plane to
another. [Can we imagine the limits?]
“If I march I am, if I don’t I am not.” (Sir Iqbal)
Mere survival without evolution is Hell.
87:12 He who will be cast into the great fire.
87:13 Wherein he neither dies nor lives. [Mere survival]
[Without Permanent Values people live an unlived life. And in both
lives their own ‘self’ fails to make progress. The Quran terms as
‘Hell’ a life that is stagnant, and as ‘Paradise’ a life that is ever
progressive. That is ‘Immortality’ as distinct from ‘Survival’ 14:17,
20:74, 74:28-29]
Q 2: … why did He give me life and send me here without my consent?
The Gift of Life: Diamond became diamond only because once it was
simple carbon. This sheds light on our second question. Life is a gift
since it provides our ‘self’ an opportunity to grow beyond our
imagination. If there was no carbon there would be no diamond. When
someone gives us a gift, we say, “Thank you!”
Unlike carbon as coal, we do not have to bear millions of years of
intense heat in the depth of the earth in order to become diamond. The
rule for us humans is simple:
Give and grow! – higher and higher from one plane to another.
3:92 You will never attain exponential growth of the ‘self’ unless you
open up for others the possessions you cherish. And whatever you
spend, God is well Aware of it.
[God, the Knower of your own ‘self’, reminds that Paradise is for
those who attain self-actualization by giving. 92:18]
92:18 Who gives his wealth that he may grow in goodness to self-
actualization. [9:111]
Get ready for the new Universe:
14:48 The Day will come when this earth will be replaced with a new
earth, and the heavens too will be replaced and they will come forth
to God, the One, the Dominating.
56:60 We have decreed death (designed the laws of death) among you.
And there is nothing to prevent Us
56:61 From changing your forms and making you in a manner, and in an
environment, that is (as yet) unknown to you.
The ultimate objective in Islam is not Salvation, the negative
connotation of freeing oneself from some kind of mess; it is Supreme
Triumph and Signal Victory.
9:89 God has made ready for them Gardens beneath which rivers flow,
wherein they will abide. That is the signal victory.
33:71 He will adjust your works for you, and protect you from trailing
behind in humanity. Surely, one who obeys God and His Messenger has
gained a signal victory. [4:31, 42:37, 53:32]
48:5 Thus He will admit the believing men and the believing women into
Gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they shall abide. And He
will absolve their faults and imperfections. And that is, in the Sight
of God, the Supreme Triumph. [11:115]
57:12 On the Day when you will see the believing men and the believing
women, their lights shining forth before them, blessing them, (it will
be said), “A happy news for you this Day - Gardens beneath which
rivers flow, (for you) to abide therein. This, this is the Supreme
Triumph!” [57:9]
61:12 He will guard you from trailing behind in humanity, and admit
you into Gardens beneath which rivers flow, and into beautiful
mansions in the Gardens of Eden, (Gardens of Eternal bliss). That is
the Supreme Triumph.
