The Straight Path

The Straight Path

What is the purpose of life?

{And [tell them that] I have not created the invisible beings and mankind to any end other than that they may [know and] worship Me. I do not desire from them any sustenance and I do not desire that they should feed Me. Truly, God, He is The Provider, The Possessor of Strength, The Sure.}  Quran (51:56-58)

Who is the creator?

{Is not He (best) Who created the heavens and the earth, and sendeth down for you water from the sky where with We cause to spring forth joyous orchards, whose trees it never hath been yours to cause to grow. Is there any god beside God? Nay, but they are folk who ascribe equals (unto Him)! Is not He (best) Who made the earth a fixed abode, and placed rivers in the folds thereof, and placed firm hills therein, and hath set a barrier between the two seas? Is there any god beside God? Nay, but most of them know not! Is not He (best) Who answereth the wronged one when he crieth unto Him and removeth the evil, and hath made you viceroys of the earth? Is there any god beside God? Little do they reflect! Is not He (best) Who guideth you in the darkness of the land and the sea, He Who sendeth the winds as heralds of His mercy? Is there any god beside God? High Exalted be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)! Is not He (best) Who produceth creation, then reproduceth it, and Who provideth for you from the heaven and the earth? Is there any god beside God? Say: Bring your proof, if ye are truthful! } Quran (27:60-64)

Again: Who is He?!

{Say: He is Allah, the One! Allah is Absolute, Eternal, Unique, Self-Sufficient, Perfect, Independent, the Uncaused Cause of all that exists, Besought of all. He has not begotten and has not been begotten, and, there is absolutely no one equal to Him; no one is even remotely comparable.} Quran (112:1- 4)

Then Who is Jesus?!

{Jesus said: Truly, I am a servant of God. He gave me the Book and He made me a Prophet. He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and commissioned me to pray and [pay] the welfare tax so long as I live; And (He has made me) dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me arrogant, graceless. Blessed was I on the day I was born, and blessed I shall be on the day I die and on the day I am raised to life again.} Quran (19 : 30 - 31)

{Mention when God said: O Jesus son of Mary! Remember My divine blessing on thee and on the one who is thy mother, when I confirmed thee, Jesus, with the hallowed Spirit so that thou hast spoken to humanity from the cradle and in manhood and when I taught thee the Book and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel and when thou hast created from clay the likeness of a bird with My permission and thou hast breathed into it and it becomes a bird with My permission and thou hast cured one blind from birth and the leper with My permission and when thou hast brought out the dead with My permission and when I limited the Children of Israel from thee when thou hadst drawn near them with the clear portents. And those who were ungrateful among them said: This is nothing but clear sorcery.} Quran (5:110)

What about Moses?

{Have you heard the story of Moses? When he saw a fire and said to his family, Wait here. I can make out a fire. Maybe I will bring you a brand from it, or will find guidance there. Then when he came near to it, he was called by name: "O Moses! Surely I am your Lord, therefore put off your shoes; surely you are in the sacred valley, Tuwa, And I have chosen you, therefore listen to what is revealed to you. "I am God, there is no god but Me, so serve Me and hold the contact-method for My remembrance.} Quran (20: 9 - 14)

Where I can find the truth?

{And thus did We reveal to you [O Muhammad,] an inspired book by Our command. You did not know what the Book was, nor (what) the faith (was), but We made it a light, guiding thereby whom We please of Our servants; and most surely you show the way to the right path} Quran (42: 52)

Muhammad?!

{Does it seem strange to people that We have sent revelation to a man from among themselves, saying, Warn mankind and give glad tidings to the believers that they have a true rank [of honour] with their Lord? Those who deny the truth say, This man is clearly a sorcerer. } Quran (10 : 2)

  

What shall I do?

{Believers, whether men or women, must [act as] friends to one another; they should command decency and forbid wickedness, keep up prayer, and pay the welfare tax as well as obey God and His messenger. Those God will grant mercy to; God is Powerful, Wise! } Quran (9 : 71)

But What if I committed a sin?

{ And those who, when they committed an indecency or did wrong to themselves, they remembered God. Then, they asked for forgiveness for their impieties. And who forgives impieties but God? And persist not in what impiety they committed while they know. To these the reward will be forgiveness from their Lord and gardens with rivers flowing underneath, eternally abiding in it. How excellent is this reward for the doers (who do righteous deeds according to Allah’s Orders).} Quran (3 : 135 - 136)

Then?

The Day of the Judgment:

{When the heaven is cleft asunder. And when the stars have fallen and scattered. And when the seas are burst forth. And when the graves are turned upside down (and bring out their contents) (Then) a person will know what he has sent forward and (what he has) left behind (of good or bad deeds).} Quran (82 : 1 - 5)

What else?

Life of Bliss:

{Then as for him who will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Here! read my Record! "Surely, I did believe that I shall meet my Account!" So he shall be in a life, well-pleasing. In a lofty Paradise, The fruits in bunches whereof will be low and near at hand. Eat and drink at ease for that which you have sent on before you in days past!}

Quran (69 : 19 - 24)

Note!

{When God desires to guide someone, He opens his breast to Islam; and whoever He wills to let go astray, He causes his breast to be constricted as if he had to climb up to the skies. That is how God heaps ignominy upon those who refuse to believe.} Quran (6 : 125)