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Allah's good pleasure and attain His Garden.
In this world, the most important goal of man must be to love Allah
and to earn His good pleasure. That is because, our Lord, the All-
Merciful, loves us and protects us at every moment. One verse of Qur'an,
quoting the words of one of the prophets, reads:
"…My Lord is the Preserver of everything." (Surah Hud: 57)
The Hereafter
Allah describes the temporary nature of this world in many verses
of the Qur'an and stresses that the real abode of man is in the hereafter. A
man who is tested in this world will one day be overtaken by death and
thus start his life in the hereafter. This is life without end. In his eternal
life, the soul of man will not disappear. Allah creates countless blessings
in this world. He created the life of this world to see how we will conduct
ourselves in return for the blessings we enjoy. As a reward or punishment,
Allah has also created the Garden and the Fire.
Allah informs us how a person will be repaid in His presence in the
hereafter:
Those who produce a good action will receive ten like it. But
those who produce a bad action will only be repaid with its
