Focus on Your Purpose

 

Haafidh al-Hakami [d. 1377 AH] (1), may Allaah have mercy on him, said: 

“Know that Allaah, the Lofty and High, has not left the creation without a purpose.” (2)

Allaah, the Most High, says in His Book:

“Did you think that We had created you in play (without any purpose), and that you would not be brought back to Us?” (3)

Haafidh al-Hakami, may Allaah have mercy him, commented on this verse by saying:

‘Do you think that we created you for play, without any aim, intent or wisdom? Some say that the verse means: Do you think you were created for play and to wander aimlessly like animals, with no reward and no punishment?’

Furthermore, His, the Most High, statement:

‘and that you would not be brought back to Us,’

means: [Do you think] that you would not return to us in the afterlife? No. The affair is not like that. We have only created you for the purpose of worship and carrying out the commands of Allaah, the Lofty and High. Then, we will resurrect you for a day about which there is no doubt.

[On that day], we will reward every one for their efforts. If those efforts were good, the reward will be good, and if they were evil, the reward will be evil… (4)

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(1)  [TN]: Haafidh Ibn Ahmad al-Hakami wa a prominent Islaamic scholar who resided in the Southern Province of Saudi Arabia, his contributions to Islaam are many. His books on monotheism (at-Tawheed), and other than them, are highly respected by the contemporary scholars of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah.

(2) Haafidh al-Hakami, Sullum al-Wusul…, Line #13

(3) Noble Qur’aan,  Surah al-Muminun (23): 115

(4) Haafidh al-Hakami, M’aarij al-Qubul, 1/96 – [Dar Ibn al-Jawzi]