THE AIM OF CREATION

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 04)
Verses 19-25THE CREATION IS NOT A PLAY VERSE NO.16ِ18

      The Materialists think of creation to be aimless, because in their sight the source of all creatures is a material, void of intelligence and knowledge!

      Contrary to them are the Divine Philosophers, and the followers of Divine Religions, who see a high aim, and excellent purpose, for the creation of anything; because the Creator is All-knowing, All-mighty, and All-wise. Such a Creator will never create a thing useless and void of aim and object.

      As to the question of what the aim or object might be, we have to go through the matter a little deeper:ِ

      God has not the least amount of shortcoming or deficiency in His everlasting existence. So there is not any gap that He may want to fill it by His creation and creatures. Nor is He in need of the worship or service of anything that may exist. We should not compare the Creator's attributes, with that of His creatures, even those in the highest of ranks and dearer and nearer to Him, such as the prophets, angels, and saints. Because He is Infinite in Substance, as well as in His Attributes.

      We therefore may conclude that the aim of creation must lay somehow in the creation of Man who is the most advanced among the existing creatures. He is in the front of all as regards progress, faculties, and ideas.

      For Man, the universe is a school to train and to develop him. Here is a farm land in which he has to sow the seeds of progress, and reap and harvest it in the Hereafter.

      If we are asked to worship our Lord, it is because our worship serves to improve our spiritual and physical faculties. If God, the Most Merciful puts us under a test in His trials here, He intends to reveal, and to develop our hidden merits. In brief, we may say that the aim of creation is development and progress in all possible aspects and respects. Of course, we ought to know that the Evolution and development depends to a very high extent, to our own Free Will; and we should step on, and tread the road of development on our own feet, and not to be taken on as a lame!

 

 

 

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