The Devotion of Life — Page 50
50 Importance and Blessings of ö ≅ è % ¨ β Î ) ’ Î A Ÿ ξ | ¹ ’ Å 5 Ý ¡ è Σ u ρ y “ $ u ‹ ø t x Χ u ρ † Î A$ y ϑ t Β u ρ ¬ ! É b > u ‘ t ⎦⎫ Ï Η s >≈ y è ø 9 $ # ∩⊇∉⊄∪ Ÿ ω y 7ƒ Î Ÿ ° … ç μ s 9 ( y 7 Ï 9≡ x ‹ Î / u ρ ß N ö Ï Β é & O $ t Ρ r & u ρ ã Α ¨ ρ r & t ⎦⎫ Ï Η Í > ó ¡ ç R ù Q $ # ∩⊇∉⊂∪ “Say, ‘My Prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are all for Allah, the Lord of the worlds’. He has no partner. And so am I commanded, and I am the first of those who submit’”. (Chapter 6:163-164) Neither the birth of a human being into this world is of his own volition nor his departure from this world is with his own choice. Although the manifestation of each creature on this earth is a miracle in itself, the continuous sequence of nativity in the whole world is beyond imagination. The Creator of the Universe has, in His Mercy, expounded the purpose of the creation of human beings in the Holy Quran that the Jinn and Human beings are created for the worship of God Almighty. In other words, they are created to fulfil their responsibilities. It is further explained that your life and your death have a singular objective to see who amongst you can please his Creator and Maker by his good deeds and thus become an inheritor of that everlasting limitless Paradise whose dimensions exceed the ever