Creation Plan of God

CREATION PLAN OF GOD perfect and eternal world. As part of this test, Paradise is kept hidden from us. The essence of God’s Creation Plan is to give a person complete freedom–not simply as a gift, but as a test. The result of this test would enable God to know who misused his freedom and who put his freedom to the best use. This was, and still is, the divine scheme of things for man. In the pre-death period of life, an individual has the chance to qualify himself for Paradise so that in the post-death period of life, he may be settled as a deserving candidate in this perfect world. This world, therefore, has all the components necessary for a test. It has perfection-seeking beings in a less-than-perfect world, beings who have been given complete freedom to choose their actions. We thus have a choice—we can misuse our freedom to do evil, or we can use our freedom wisely, submit to God and qualify for Paradise. Those who misuse their God-given freedom are chastised thus in the Quran: “This is the Truth from your Lord. Let him who will believe in it, and him who will deny it.’ For the wrongdoers, We have prepared a Fire which will cover them like a canopy, and if they beg for water, they will be given water as hot as molten lead, which will scald their faces: how dreadful a drink, and how evil a resting place!” (18:29) The Creator of the world has created this world as one half of a pair—the present world, in which we pass our lives after birth, is the first half, and the next eternal world, where we live after death, is the other half.