This is a brief presentation about the purpose of life in Islam. Actually, it is derived from my book "The True Purpose of Life"

1. Yaqeen Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander

2. RKQS 1030
Dr Noor Mohammad Osmani

3. Outline
 Introduction
 What is Life?
 Life as a Purposeful Creation
 Life in other Religions – A brief overview
 Purpose of Life in Islam
 Conclusion
 References

4. Introduction
What is Life?
Where do I come from?
Where will I go after Death?
These fundamental Questions need an
ANSWER!

5. What is Life?
 Very Important & Significant Question
 Different Perspectives
 Various definitions by different Philosophers &
Scholars.
 The meaning of life is deeply mixed with the
philosophical and religious conceptions of
existence, consciousness, and happiness, and touches
on many other issues, such as symbolic
meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and
evil, free will, conceptions of God, the existence of
God, the soul and the afterlife.

6. Life as a Purposeful Creation
 Life is not purposeless but is highly purposeful
 Everything has a purpose & Life too has a deep and
significant purpose
 And if everything around us has a purpose then the
great asset of life cannot be purposeless
 Religion is the best way to know about the Purpose of
Life.

7. Life in other Religions – A Brief Overview
 Defected or incomplete as compared to Islam
 Hinduism – Cycle of Birth & Rebirth
 Judaism – Almost silent on purpose of life, Just poetry
& History.
 Christianity – Original Sin, St. Paul, Crucifixion
 Zoroastrianism – Ahura Mazda & Ahriman, Paganism
 Buddhism & Jainism – Renouncing the world to get
salvation.
 Life in Islam – The only choice

8. Purpose of Life in Islam
 To acquire knowledge in order to understand our
status in life.
 Man is Dignified Being.
 Man is the Representative (Khalifa) of Allah on Earth
(2:30)
 Man has to manifest divine attributes into himself
 Allah created us in order to worship Him (51:56)
 Life is a test to Man (61:2)
 He will be rewarded according in the Aakhirah
 Man is the Best of the Creation

9. Conclusion
 Life is really a precious asset and a trust from Allah
 Without knowing the purpose of life, life becomes aimless
without any final goal
 Except Islam, in all other religions and philosophies, the
purpose of life is incomplete, or defected, or impractical or
not moderate
 Only Islam provides the complete code of life & only Islam
is the universal religion belonging to all humanity
 And the moment we realize our purpose in life, our status
gets exalted till Allah mentions us as the best evolved
people:
 “You are the best of Peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining
what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in
Allah”

10. Refrences
 Books:
 Muhsin Khan, Dr. M., The Noble Quran, Darrusalam, (Riyadh – 1996).
 The Holy Quran – English Translation of the meanings and
commentary, The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques King Fahd Complex.
 Yusuf Ali, Abdullah, The Holy Quran, Goodword Books, (New Delhi – 2005).
 Abdalati, Hammudah, Islam in Focus, Adam Publishers, (New Delhi – 2006).
 Khanam, Dr. Farida, Islamic Studies Class XI (textbook), Devra Books, (New
Delhi – 2007).
 Sikander, Yaqeen Ul Haq Ahmad, The True Purpose of Life, Adam
Publishers, (New Delhi - 2009).
 Softwares:
 Alim for Windows, Version 4.5, ISL Software Corporation, 1996.
 The Hadith Software, Version 1.0, Islamasoft Solutions.
 Websites:
 www.purposeofcreation.com
 www.wikipedia.org