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Sat 11 Nov, 2006 03:34 pm
Related matter with above sentences...
''Be certain of this, that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God.
The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.
The most radiant happiness and sweetest bounty for jinn and human beings are the love of God contained within the knowledge of God.
And the purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
Indeed, all true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
One who knows and loves God Almighty is potentially able to receive endless bounties, happiness, lights, and mysteries.
While one who does not truly know and love him is afflicted spiritually and materially by endless misery, pain, and fears.
Even if such an impotent and miserable person owned the whole world, it would be worth nothing for him, for it would seem to him that he was living a fruitless life among the vagrant human race in a wretched world without owner or protector.
Everyone may understand just how wretched and bewildered is man among the vagrant human race in this bewildering fleeting world if he does not know his Owner, if he does not discover his Master.
But if he does discover and know Him, he will seek refuge in His mercy and will rely on His power.
The desolate world will turn into a place of recreation and pleasure, it will become a place of trade for the hereafter. ''
BSN 20.letter
Quote:the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God.
There's no evidence that creation has an "aim". Why this assumption, then?
''The greatest manifestation of the Divine Name of Sapient has made the universe like a book in every page of which hundreds of books have been written, and in every line of which hundreds of pages have been included, and in every word of which are hundreds of lines, and in each letter of which are a hundred words, and in every point of which is found a short index of the book.
The book's pages and lines down to the very points show its Inscriber and Writer with such clarity that that book of the universe testifies to and proves the existence and Unity of its Scribe to a degree far greater than it shows its own existence.
For if a single letter shows its own existence to the extent of a letter, it shows its Scribe to the extent of a line.'' 30.flash BSN
The wisdom in the existence of all things, and the aims of their natures, the benefits in their creation, and the results of their lives are of three sorts.
The First Sort looks to each thing itself and to man and to man's affairs.
The Second Sort is more important. It is the setting forth to innumerable readers the meanings of all things, each of which is like a sign, a missive, a book, an ode for conscious beings to study, a sign making known the manifestation of the Glorious Creator's Names.
The Third Sort: This concerns the Glorious Maker and looks to Him. While the benefits and results of everything that look to the things themselves are one, those looking to the Glorious Maker are myriad. For the Glorious Maker beholds the wonders of His art Himself, He observes the manifestation of His Names in beings which He Himself has fashioned. As far as this mighty third sort is concerned, for the things to live even for a second is sufficient.
How do you know all this stuff?
I copy and paste from Qur'an interpretation which was written by my master Bediuzzaman Said Nursi.