The Qur’an For All Humanity
The Goal of Life
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should recognise God although He is invisible. The
life that takes shape as a result of this realisation is
called servitude of God.
When a pot floating in the river fills to the brim, it
sinks. Similarly when man’s span of action is
completed, death comes unannounced. One who
reforms himself before his pot is full saves himself.
One who remains oblivious till his last day of the
necessity to reform; is doomed to eternal
destruction.
If the oppressors are given a long rope, it does not
mean that they have been left scot-free. It only
means that it is not the
sunnah
(way) of God to seize
them in haste.
God has not created man for the completion of His
Being. Rather man has been given this opportunity
to prove himself a true servant of God in this world
of trial in order that he may be deserving of the
blessings of God for all eternity.
