Why were we created? Were we created only to eat, drink and have fun? Was there any higher purpose involved in our creation or we were supposed to be merely players on this stage since the prequel of the drama of life where some of us continue strutting and fretting for a moment and some being responsible, lead a very reasonable life. But at the end of the day all of us are left with no option other than becoming the food for insects. This is the end of our worldly body. Is this the only sequel of our drama? The answer is a big “NO”. When we reflect a little upon our life on earth we are confronted with many such apparently equivocal questions and the moment we start analyzing the natural phenomena we are dished out with a vast variety of very explicit and extremely categorical answers about our transitory life on earth. We come to know that the Creator of all creators fashioned this life with some purpose and we have not just been flung in this world to lead a carefree life.

Almighty Allah created all of us just to worship Him. And the life in this world is nothing but a trial. We will be tested according to the level of our capacity to qualify for the best life that has been promised to us by the Lord of all lords. Thos who do good deeds will be gifted with the promised land full of all pleasures which cannot even be thought or dreamt of in this animal life. When the Sun follows the moon and the moon follows the Sun, don’t we see a well conceived system. The Sun starts its prayer at dawn ( Kayam position) and at noon reaches the Rakooh position. Then the Sajood starts with the dusk that continues till dawn. Is this not an indication for us to learn a pretty good lesson from it i.e. to submit ourselves fully to the will of our Lord in terms of prayers five time in the mosque as well as in our day to day matters.

This ephemeral life will pass with the twinkling of an eye and then our good and bad deeds will be weighed in the scale to award us a status in real life in the hereafter. The life of this world is brief and the one offered to us in the hereafter is what is permanent and everlasting. Injustice will be done to none as Almighty Allah is the most Just of all justices. Those who do the evil will be recompensed to the extent of evil they do. And the believers who do righteous deeds will be gifted with the everlasting life of comfort and contentment in paradise, underneath which flow rivers, wherein they will have their abodes for ever.

If this be the case of our life that our Lord asks us to live here according to the plan of action He has set for us, then how dare we pass a moment of our life without His divine guidance whose blessings are everlasting and unlimited for all of us. Merciful Lord of all the worlds demands us to take this fleeting life as a trial. His last prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him) has termed this world as a prison. So, in view of all this we must live here in such as way that we follow His scheme of things i.e. Qura’n and Sunnah to be successful in the hereafter wherein to enjoy ourselves with the everlasting pleasures in Paradise underneath which flow rivers of honey and milk. This is the purpose of our life on earth, nothing more nothing less. May Almighty Allah grant us the knowledge, wisdom and the will to do good and righteous deeds to be successful in this life and hereafter as well. Amen.