Why is this life given to us?To learn new lessons or to unlearn the old ones?

Question

it seems that there is a design in life"s happenings.there is a system.!!

Answer 1

unlearn. definitly.
God's Way is Simple, he put the herbs and plants here for us to eat, he put us in charge or CARING or the animals and eachother. if we allowed natural selection to take its course things would be running much smoother

Answer 2

Yes, to learn new ones and better understand the old ones. I guess the reason for us being here is to attain perfect love. Everyday our perceptions change with new inputs from everything around us. I guess we have to get to a level where we don't judge anymore, because we understand.

Answer 3

I would say learn new lessons and dont look back. Theres a saying that i like and its "If you keep looking in the rear view mirror, your going to crash" so think about it a make a fresh start, could'nt hurt. :)

Answer 4

Its given to us because of the Love of God.
I Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!

Answer 5

Both

Answer 6

so that we may spread the gospel to everyone, so that by God's grace we can go to heaven

Answer 7

So that we can live good lives and go to Heaven.

Answer 8

I have not created the jinn and the men except for this that they should worship Me.*53 I do not ask any sustenance of them, nor do I ask them to feed Me.*54 Allah Himself is the Sustainer, Possessor of power and might.*55 Therefore, those who have done wrong,*56 have also their portion of a similar torment ready as the people like them have been meted out their portions before. So let them not ask Me to hasten it.57 Ultimately, there will be destruction for those who have disbelieved, on the Day with which they are being threatened.


The Holly Quran Verse 56 – 60 Surat Adh-Dhariyat



53. That is, "I have not created them for the service of others but for My own service. They should serve Me, for I am their Creator. When no one else has created them, no one else has the right that they should serve him ; and how can it be admissible for them that they should serve others instead of Me, their Creator?" Here, the question arises that Allah Almighty is not the Creator only of the jinn and men but of the entire Universe and of every thing in it. Then, why has it been said only about the jinn and men that He has not created them for the service of others but of Himself ? whereas every single creature is there to serve Allah. The answer is : On the earth only the jinn and men have been granted the freedom that they may serve Allah within their sphere of choice if they so like ; otherwise they can turn away from Allah's service as well as serve others beside Him. The rest of the creatures in the world do not have this kind of freedom. They do not have any choice whatever that they may not worship and serve Allah, or may serve any other. Therefore, only about the jinn and men it has been said here that by turning away from the obedience and servitude of their Creator within the bounds of their option and choice and by serving others than the Creator, they are fighting their own nature. They should know that they have not been created for the service of any other but the Creator, and for them the right way is that they should not abuse the freedom granted them, but within the bounds of this freedom also they should serve God voluntarily just as every particle of their body is serving Him involuntarily in the sphere where they have not been granted any freedom,
The word `ibadat (service, worship) in this verse has not been used in the sense of only prayer, fasting and other kinds of such worship so that one may understand that the jinn and men have been created only for performing the Prayer, observing the Fast and for praising and glorifying Allah. Although this sense also is included in it, this is not its complete sense. Its complete sense is that the jinn and men have not been created for the worship, obedience and carrying out of the orders of any other but Allah. They are not there to bow to any other, to carry out the orders of any other, to live in fear of any other, to follow the religion enjoined by any other, to look upon any other as the maker and destroyer of one's destiny, and to supplicate any other than Allah for help. (For further explanation, see E.N. 63 of surat Saba., E.N. 2 of Az Zumar, E.N. 30 of Al-Jathiyah).
Another thing that incidentally becomes quite obvious from this verse is that the jinn are a separate and independent creation from men. This brings out the error of the thinking of those people, who assert that some people from among mankind have been called the jinn in the Qur'an, This same thing is also confirmed and testified by the following verses of the Qur'an : Al-An'am 100, 128, Al-Acraf 38, 179, Hud ; 119, A1-.hijr 27 to 33, Bani Isra'il : 88, Al-Kahf : 50, As-Sajdah : 13, Saba : 41, Suad : 75, 76, ha mim AsSajdah : 25, Al-ahqaf : 18, Ar-rahmaan. : 15, 39, 56. (For a complete discussion of this question, see E.N. 21 of Al-Anbiya',E.N.'s 23, 45 of An-Naml, E.N. 24 of Saba).


54. That is, "I do not stand in need of any kind of help from the jinn and men: that My Godhead would not function if they did not worship Me : that I would be no more God if they turned away from My service. I indeed do not stand in need. Of their service, but it is the demand of their own nature that they should serve Me. They have been. created- for 'this very object, and fighting nature would be to their own detriment.";
And in saying : 'I do not-ask any sustenance of them nor do I ask them to feed Me," there is a subtle hint to this : Those whom the people who have turned away from God worship in the world, worship, indeed, stand in need of these their worshippers. If they do not help sustain their godhead, it would not function even for a day. The gods do not provide for the worshippers but the worshippers provide for the gods instead. The gods do not feed them but they feed the gods instead. The gods do not protect them but the worshippers protect the gods instead. The worshippers, in fact, are their army through whom their godhead functions. Wherever the worshippers of the false gods have ceased to exist, or the worshippers have given up their worship, the gods have lost all their pomp and glory and the world has seen how helpless they have become. Of all the deities Allah Almighty is the only real Deity Whose Godhead is functioning by His own power and might, Who does not take anything from His servants, but He alone gives His servants everything.

55.The word maim as used in the original means strong and stable whom nobody can shake and move.
56."Those, ...... wrong": Those who have violated the reality and the truth and their own nature. The context itself shows that "those who have done wrong", here implies the people who are serving others than the Lord of the Universe, who disbelieve in the Hereafter, who regard themselves as irresponsible in the world, and have denied those Prophets who have tried to make them understand the reality.
57.This is the answer to the disbelievers' demand : "Why doesn't the Day of Retribution overtake us ? Wby is it being delayed ?"


THE MEANING OF THE QURAN
(ARABIC TEXT WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY)

By: S. ABDUL A'LA MAUDUDI
VOL.XIII