What is the purpose of this life?

Question

Have you ever wondered about the reason of our existence? Have you ever wondered why we die, and where we go after death? What will happen to us in the end? Have you ever asked yourself why God made the earth and all that is in it under man’s dominion? Why were the night and the day, and the sun and the moon created? What are we supposed to do during our lifetime? Were we created just to eat, drink, and enjoy ourselves before we die? As one poet put it:
“I do not know whence I have come.
I saw my feet walking on the road.
As they please I go and stop.
What am I doing here?
How did the road find me?
I do not know! I do not know! I do not know! ”

God has emphasized in many verses of the Qur’an that He did not create us without purpose. He said: “What! Do you think that I created you simply in jest? And that you would not be returned to Me?” (23:115) He also said: “What! Does man think that he will be left to roam at his will?” (75:36)

In addition,GOD said“Do people think that they will be left to say:“We believe,” and they will not be held accountable?” (29:2)
Indeed,God Has created human beings for a purpose and with a purpose: TO WORSHIP HIM ALONE (Monotheism). He said:“I have not created the Jinn and humankind except only to worship Me.I don't require provision or feeding from them. Surely Allah is the All-provider, the Possessor of all strength, the Firm.”(51:56-58)In fact, all prophets told their people to worship God alone (Monotheism) and shun worshipping His creation (Paganism). God said:“I assuredly sent among every people a messenger with the command:Worship Allah and avoid worshipping false gods.”(16:36)
Prophet Abraham,for example,believed in One God,who had no partner. Anyone who holds a different understanding of God than this has contradicted the religion of Abraham and follows falsehood. God says in the Qur’an:“Those who reject the religion of Abraham make fools of themselves.”(2:130)

Prophet Jesus was reported in the Gospels to have said: “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only’.” (Luke 4:8)
Prophet Jacob also said (in the Qur'an) to his people: “Indeed, those which you worship besides Allah are only names that you and your forefathers have established, for which Allah has sent down no authority. The command belongs only to Allah. He has commanded that you worship none but Him. That is the right religion, but most people do not understand.” (12:40)
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Answer 1

Be happy you were born a human instead of a goldfish, which only has a 3 second long memory.

Answer 2

To be honest, an open ended question deserves an open ended answer. Such a question can not be simply or elegantly answered. When asking such a question , why did you refer to the Qur'an? Do you feel that your reason for living, your reason why the sun and the moon came to be, alas - why you saw your feet walking along the road (and all things mentioned there in) are linked? The truly honest mind would accept the truth. There is no decipherable reason as to "why?" The truly honest mind accepts that we do not have the luxury in this unexplained phenomena we call life of knowing Who? What? Where? When? or Why we came to be. Or what our purpose is, or why anything "just is". Ideas that attempt answering such questions are normally "religious ideals". The reason for that i guess is that one can not begin to answer these questions to another being without attempting to convince the being that they are closer to the "supreme being" and thus - why "they" understand better and why "they" have to explain it. The long and the short? Can't ask anyone else that question coz' only you can get you closer to the "feeling" of why without having to ask the unanswerable.

Answer 3

what is to done of ur life i thing u know more becase u have read all Qran, Bible. or many more .I will only like to tell is
To live a life where u can feel satisfied being running in the mad world.
Claim u have been living a life not hurting any one
Where u can only die the the world with only cry for ur death no celebration on ur death.

Answer 4

You were born as a small part of a big Universe, and the purpose is to develop yourself. Improving youself and/or a world around you, you makes the life and Universe a bit better.

Answer 5

Live fast. Die young. A great man once said "You only live once but if you live like us Once is enough" As for as the god stuff i guess the only people that know are the people that are dead.

Answer 6

I think I'm a reincarnation of a goldfish, i can't remember the question and i only read it 3 seconds ago :0(

Answer 7

If you thought I was gonna read all that you must be mistaken

Anyways the purpose of life is to get married and have babies

Answer 8

it depend on ur religion,im muslim so we live in life to worship god and go to heaven and living is a worship to us to work, to eat ,to be healthy

Answer 9

dude i ask myself that question so many times. like, my mum's into all this new age stuff & all, and apparently i have the best known soul guide; with lots of history & even stuff in shops [you go in and see stuff about soul guides, and it talks about mine]. so im thinking, wtf?? why me n all that kind of stuff. am i suposed to do something special with my life? i just dont understand life. but my goal: just get through it & die. life sucks, is it suposed to be this hard?

Answer 10

The purpose of life is to live it.