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17 2 04 PPT Purpose of Life
17 2 04 PPT Purpose of Life
Outline
• Introduction
– What is the purpose of life?
• To Know God
– Reason, Knowledge and Salvation
• Surrendering to God
– To receive and Experience Attributes of God
– Is this life a test?
– Is this life a struggle?
• Learning in Test and Struggle
– Forgiveness
Introduction
• Salvation is obtained
• through searching out and
surrendering to GOD.
• We grow in
– Virtue
– Wisdom
– Justice
– Mercy
– Forgiveness
– Righteousness
– Concern and love
– Compassion, patience and generosity
To receive and experience God's attributes
• We are to pursue them not only to make the world a better place,
– Free will,
– ability to choose
– Intellect,
– learning from one’s choices
– Struggle
Why do we have to experience this life?
• Quran insists that, in the design of
God, our earthly life is a necessary
stage in human existence:
• And We did not create the heaven and the earth and
whatever is between them as a game. If we wished to
take a pastime, We would have taken it by Ourselves,
if We were to do that at all! (21:16-17)