Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 160
160 islam’s response to contemporary issues Looking at such societies, one may be led to believe that the seeking of vain pleasures and total submission to the sensual desires is, in fact, the very purpose of man’s creation. Not so according to Islam. In the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the alternation of the night and day there are indeed signs for men of understanding. Those who remember Allah, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and ponder over the creation of the heavens and the earth, say, ‘Our Lord, Thou hast not created this in vain; Nay, Holy art Thou; save us then from the punishment of the fire’. 24 This is the declaration attributed by the Holy Quran to the wise servants of Allah who after pondering over the riddle of creation and life, spontaneously exclaim that whatever the purpose of creation be, it is not vanity. These verses of the Holy Quran remind one of the great expression of joy by Archimedes when he shouted Eureka! Thus, there are two completely different climates. According to the Holy Quran, man has been created to achieve the noble goal of pursuing the path, which leads to his Creator. In this wider meaning of worship, the Holy Quran declared: