Purpose of Man’s Creation

PURPOSE OF MAN’S CREATION The pre-death period is very short, and the post-death period is eternal. Everyone feels that they have enormous desires, but they are not able to fulfil them. The reason is that the present world is an imperfect world with many kinds of limitations. This means that there is a contradiction between man’s nature, which seeks fulfilment of his desires, and the world, which is incapable of fulfilling man’s desires. Man, by nature, wants a world where his personality can find total fulfilment, but the present world fails to provide such fulfilment. Sir James Jeans in his book, The Mysterious Universe, has rightly pointed out this fact in these words: ‘It appears that man has strayed into a world that was not made for him’. According to the Quran, the present earth is not a habitat for man forever. Man’s eternal habitat lies in the world Hereafter. In accordance with this divine plan, man must develop his personality in the pre-death