Purpose of Man’s Creation

and the statesman sat on chairs facing one another. Then, in a serious tone, the statesman said to Billy Graham: “You see, I am an old man. Life has lost all meaning. I am ready to take a fateful leap into the unknown. Young man, can you give me a ray of hope?” (The Secret of Happiness, Billy Graham, 1955, p.2) This is a common question. Every man and woman—consciously or unconsciously—has this question in their mind. This is the first concern of every human being. To find the real answer, we have to try to understand the Creation Plan of God. God is the Creator of this world. Only by gaining an understanding of the Creator’s Plan can we get the right answer to the question. The Quran, the preserved Book of God, answers this question. According to the Quran, man is born as an eternal being, but his life span is divided into two parts: the pre-death period and the post-death period. 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 imperfect and has many 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,’ rightly