FOREWORD

FOREWORD The mission of the Muslim Ummah is to convey the message of the Quran in the modern idiom to all humanity peacefully. G od has created man as an independent being and given him freedom in this world to test him. God wants to know who makes proper use of his freedom and who makes wrongful use of it. The Quran states that God “created death and life so that He might test you, and find out which of you is best in conduct.” (67:2). At another place, the Quran tells us that the jinns and mankind were created to worship God. (51:56) According to the interpretation of Mujahid Tabii, a disciple of Abdullah ibn Abbas, a senior Companion of the Prophet, worship in this verse means the realization of God. (Tafsir Al-Qurtubi, Vol. 17, p. 55) This realization is the realization of God and His creation plan. It means that man, using his unique mind, discovers his Creator: his Lord, and understands the creation plan of the Creator for him, that the present world is a selection ground. Here