ajpirzada
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I tried to be an atheist, but I have got no reason to be an atheist. There are numerous implications of the existence of Allah, if not direct proofs. With your limited intellect and power, you will not know all the answers, therefore, the matter of believing, trialing and rewarding in the hereafter. You do not have the ability to go everywhere in the universe and beyond the universes and find Allah, but you will find him through his implications and creations.
But I have some questions:
1. Why Allah has the right to trial me/hurt me/create me?
2. Allah says that he never does injustice, if you are put into a trial or we are hurt now, we will be rewarded later. Is not it like I keep my slave in starvation for 7 days and give him a lots of food later? Then what about the pain of those 7 days. Then is not it whimsical?
3. Why the relationship between Allah and me is like Slave and Lord, why not friendly? Why he likes us to bend before him or go in prostration before him? Just because he created us and powerful than us? Is the relation respectful for Human?
4. Why the relationship between me and Allah is conditional from the side of Allah, I mean, if you obey his conditions, then you will be rewarded, otherwise will be punished. But, since I have been created that I did not want, why I can not have any condition, like you have created me which I do not want, so do not put me into hell, just spare me in the Earth.
5. Why there is no choice between Hell and Heaven? I mean if I do not want to obey Allah, why doesn't Allah just spare me in this earth? If someone obeys his conditions, he can be rewarded with Heaven, a batter place than this earth. But why we are compelled to choose between Hell and Heaven only? The choice should have been given between Heaven and this Earth, not hell.
6. Allah said, he does not need our prayer/worship for him, but we need to worship him for our reward in the hereafter. Does not it mean our prayers/worships have no value to him. It means I will pray to Allah or worship to Allah, but he does not need that at all, is not that disrespectful to me?
7. Why sometimes Allah gives us unbearable pains that some people commit suicide?
8. Is not Allah is the biggest discriminator who created us differently and givens us different power, property, wisdom etc.?
9. @Aeronaut you said that we will be judged based on our actions not fate, is not our fate influence our actions. Suppose, I am a poor man, so I am not happy, so I do not obey Allah happily, and ultimately I lose my respect for Allah etc etc.. Although according to Allah you cannot be unhappy in any condition with Allah or Allah's any decree.
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unfortunately, we do not have a choice in certain matters. Allah created the creation to worship Him and to know Him. Hence, the purpose of the creation is to obey and worship the Creator. Now this is the reality by default. and it makes sense as there is nothing which gets created by anyone without being assigned a purpose. and the hard truth is that any creation does not have any say with its creator in the matter of what is it being created for :/ this is going from the creation to the creator.
Now come to this argument the other way round - from the creator to the creation. The praise for the creator is only in the fact that how capable is his creation is fulfilling the purpose of its creation in the most fitting manner. Now apply this to Allah, the Most Perfect of all creators. He has created us in a way that we are most fit for fulfilling this purpose which He has assigned to us - that is the obey and worship Him like a slave does his master.
Given our creation has already happened, no other purpose can suit us better than this because we are by design made for this. However, He has given us the free will to either fulfil it or not to fulfil it. Creation which fulfils the purpose becomes beloved to his creator and likewise Allah made Prophet Ibrahim, peace and blessings be upon him, His khaleel (friend) and made Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessing be upon him and his family, His beloved and chosen one. Likewise it is with those who fulfil their purpose to Allah and Allah chooses them as His friends (called awliya). On the contrary, the creation which fails to fulfils its purpose gets thrown in the junk-yard and left to rot or destroyed all together. All this is logic and is similar to what we do in this world.
so your relation with your Lord is that of a servant and a Master without denying the possibility that He raises you by making you His friend out of His blessings. It is upto you to decide what relation you want with your Lord.
Secondly, this world is a trail in Islamic belief. Allah's justice will be upheld in the end. No state, either that of poverty or that of riches, is better in the eyes of Allah unless its rights are fulfilled. If a poor is patient in the face of his poverty while the rich is thankless in the face of his riches then this poor has a higher standing in the eyes of Allah than the one who is rich. same goes with every other state. every state is a test with none better than the other unless you filfil what belongs to Allah in that given state. health or illness; richness or poverty; ease or trial; ability or disability; and ill go as far as to say obedience or disobedience. Satan was destroyed because of the ego of his obedience while Adam was saved because of the shame for his disobedience.
Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said that I do not fear for you poverty but I fear that the riches of the world will open for you after me and you will compete with each other for it like previous nations competed and got destroyed. At another place while referring the riches to come afterwards, he said to his companions that your time of poverty is better than the time to come. why? because they fulfilled the rights of their state while we do not fulfil the rights of our state. they were patient and thankful infront of their poverty while we are impatient and thankless infront of our riches. I read in the lives of the companions of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, that some of them at times made prayer for individuals (those who angered them) that may Allah grant those individuals the riches of the world. why so? because the trial of the riches is worst than the trial of poverty and by getting the riches these individuals will get separated from Allah. And isnt this true in what we see? the richer the nations become, the more distant they become from fulfilling their purpose to Allah until they are destroyed and humbled by Allah again.
Lastly, in Quran Allah says that on the day of judgement when the people will be asked how long were they in this world? they will reply that it was only a day. At another place there is a different number. So different people will give different answers but all will consider it to be short and insignificant like a dream. Why so? Because the punishment and the reward which will be spread infront of them will make the trials and comforts of this world look insignificant to them. and so will the justice of the Lord, the Majestic and the Glorious, be upheld when the time comes.
your questions could not be dealt independently without compromising clarity. i hope you wont mind me taking the liberty of trying to cover everything as a whole.
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