Purpose of Man’s Life?
English book, p. 23
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
PURPOSE OF MAN’S LIFE? state of blissfulness and blessedness in the eternal world of Paradise after death. If Man Has a Free Will, How is God All-Powerful? Another question I am often asked is, “If God cannot control man’s action, then how is He All-Powerful”? There is no doubt that God is All-Powerful. However, since He has decided to put man to the test, He has given man freedom of choice to do what he likes. If there was no free will, there would be no test. So, to test man, God has withheld His power when it comes to man and given him the freedom to respond in any way that he wants. God, however, is getting a record of all of man’s thoughts, speech, and deeds maintained, and will hold him accountable for them on the Day of Judgment. On that Day all of humanity will see the power of God. What is Man’s Trial? This limited world where man finds himself before death has all the necessary ingredients for the ‘trial.’ It has man as the perfection-seeking creature in a less-than-perfect world where he has been given complete ‘freedom.’ Man, thus, has a ‘choice’ to misuse his freedom by creating havoc, killing people, living a life of leisure, or using his freedom wisely by submitting to an unseen God and living a disciplined life, to qualify for Paradise. Man’s trial rests on discovering God, Who is in the Unseen. Before seeing Him, man should voluntarily surrender himself before God. He should be so desirous of Paradise that this world appears meaningless to him. He should adopt divine ethics without any external pressure to do so. He should develop his intellectual and spiritual being to such an extent that he

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