One of the divine principles that Islam teaches people is to love Allah but to fear him as well.
The believer should be connected to His Lord, whose bounties, grace and generosity are endless, with a great love and respect; he should think that His compassion and mercy surrounds everything, and he should not give up hope of being forgiven no matter what his sins are. Although the mercy, love and compassion of Allah are endless, he should not forget that his fury and torture is severe and he should fear Him and should beware of His punishment.
The extreme fear causes despair, that is, hopelessness. To be extremely hopeful leads man to heedlessness and ignoring his end. Therefore, it is forbidden to feel safe from the torture of Allah and to give up hope of the mercy of Allah in our religion.
Then, the heart of the believer should beat between fear and hope in the presence of his Lord with the excitement of being a slave worthy of Him.
In the Quran and hadiths, that characteristic of believers is pointed out as follows:
“ Believers hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath...” (al-Isra, 57).
One principle in the true Gospel and the Holy Koran
53. Say: "O 'Ibadi (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah, verily Allah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Surah Az-Zumar
Go directly to the Creator
He asked for forgiveness and remorse and not to return to sin again
There is no intermediary to reveal his mistakes
And take an instrument for forgiveness from the church
This is a particular delusion
Ahmed Deedat Is it permissible for a Muslim of forgiveness and entering paradise youtube
Why God wants us to worship Him?
According to the Qur’ān, worshiping God is in fact the aim of creation of human being (51:56).
God the Almighty does not need us to worship him. On the contrary it is us who need to worship Him. We need to worship Him because only by worshiping Him we will be able to purify ourselves and therefore make ourselves qualified enough to get close to Him who is the source of excellence and to be in His everlasting paradise.
When you worship some one you will try to do your best to do what he likes you to do and to refrain from what he does not like you to do. Since God is the source of all the good and excellence naturally the one who worships Him will also be in the path of excellence.
Another point is that worshipping God is not simply limited to (say) five daily Prayers and fasting a month every year. The verse that refers to worshiping as the purpose of creation of human being (51:56) uses the verb 'Ya'budūn'. 'Ya'budūn' comes from the root 'abada' which refers to 'being a servant of some one' and from here we will have 'Abd/Ibad' which is servant/s. The point I am trying to make is that the ritual worshiping is only the formal demonstration of us being servant of God. In a way, our ritual worshiping is a manifestation of us being His servants. We need to feel and act as His servant all the time in our daily life in order to make this manifestation (worshiping Him) as satisfactory as possible.
Therefore when we read that the aim of creation is to worship God we need to realise and appreciate the deep and the vast meaning and implication of the statement.
So to summarise this is the way we can think about it:
God created us from absolute nothing to give us a chance to become good enough (purified enough) to get close to Him and to stay close to Him in His heaven. We can get good enough (purified enough) by worshiping ('Ibādah of) Him which is a manifestation of being His true servant in all aspects of our life.
There is no feeling more powerful, more assuring and more peaceful than the feeling of being a servant of ‘the Lord and the Creator of the world’.
When God refers to some of the greatest human beings in the face of Earth (Ibrāhīm, Isḥāq, Ya'qūb), He refers to them with the word ‘ibādinā’ (our servants), 38:45.
I would like to invite you to check out and think about a number of verses in the Qur’ān that can be used as support and evidence of the above points:
There is a close link between what makes us successful in the hereafter, that is purification, and worshiping God: 87:14-15
God talks about His true servants with a sense of pride. Being His true servant is in fact a privilege: 17:1, 25:63, 38:45, 89:29, 38:41, 54:9, 19:2, 18:1
There is a close link between worshiping God and what the Qur’ān refers to as adopting His colour: 2:138
There is a negative link between worshiping God and arrogance: 40:60
There is a negative link between being God's servant and being deceived by Satan or to follow him or his agents: 17:65, 16:36
Why did Allah created us?
The believer should be connected to His Lord, whose bounties, grace and generosity are endless, with a great love and respect; he should think that His compassion and mercy surrounds everything, and he should not give up hope of being forgiven no matter what his sins are. Although the mercy, love and compassion of Allah are endless, he should not forget that his fury and torture is severe and he should fear Him and should beware of His punishment.
The extreme fear causes despair, that is, hopelessness. To be extremely hopeful leads man to heedlessness and ignoring his end. Therefore, it is forbidden to feel safe from the torture of Allah and to give up hope of the mercy of Allah in our religion.
Then, the heart of the believer should beat between fear and hope in the presence of his Lord with the excitement of being a slave worthy of Him.
In the Quran and hadiths, that characteristic of believers is pointed out as follows:
“ Believers hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath...” (al-Isra, 57).
One principle in the true Gospel and the Holy Koran
53. Say: "O 'Ibadi (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah, verily Allah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Surah Az-Zumar
Go directly to the Creator
He asked for forgiveness and remorse and not to return to sin again
There is no intermediary to reveal his mistakes
And take an instrument for forgiveness from the church
This is a particular delusion
Ahmed Deedat Is it permissible for a Muslim of forgiveness and entering paradise youtube
Why God wants us to worship Him?
According to the Qur’ān, worshiping God is in fact the aim of creation of human being (51:56).
God the Almighty does not need us to worship him. On the contrary it is us who need to worship Him. We need to worship Him because only by worshiping Him we will be able to purify ourselves and therefore make ourselves qualified enough to get close to Him who is the source of excellence and to be in His everlasting paradise.
When you worship some one you will try to do your best to do what he likes you to do and to refrain from what he does not like you to do. Since God is the source of all the good and excellence naturally the one who worships Him will also be in the path of excellence.
Another point is that worshipping God is not simply limited to (say) five daily Prayers and fasting a month every year. The verse that refers to worshiping as the purpose of creation of human being (51:56) uses the verb 'Ya'budūn'. 'Ya'budūn' comes from the root 'abada' which refers to 'being a servant of some one' and from here we will have 'Abd/Ibad' which is servant/s. The point I am trying to make is that the ritual worshiping is only the formal demonstration of us being servant of God. In a way, our ritual worshiping is a manifestation of us being His servants. We need to feel and act as His servant all the time in our daily life in order to make this manifestation (worshiping Him) as satisfactory as possible.
Therefore when we read that the aim of creation is to worship God we need to realise and appreciate the deep and the vast meaning and implication of the statement.
So to summarise this is the way we can think about it:
God created us from absolute nothing to give us a chance to become good enough (purified enough) to get close to Him and to stay close to Him in His heaven. We can get good enough (purified enough) by worshiping ('Ibādah of) Him which is a manifestation of being His true servant in all aspects of our life.
There is no feeling more powerful, more assuring and more peaceful than the feeling of being a servant of ‘the Lord and the Creator of the world’.
When God refers to some of the greatest human beings in the face of Earth (Ibrāhīm, Isḥāq, Ya'qūb), He refers to them with the word ‘ibādinā’ (our servants), 38:45.
I would like to invite you to check out and think about a number of verses in the Qur’ān that can be used as support and evidence of the above points:
There is a close link between what makes us successful in the hereafter, that is purification, and worshiping God: 87:14-15
God talks about His true servants with a sense of pride. Being His true servant is in fact a privilege: 17:1, 25:63, 38:45, 89:29, 38:41, 54:9, 19:2, 18:1
There is a close link between worshiping God and what the Qur’ān refers to as adopting His colour: 2:138
There is a negative link between worshiping God and arrogance: 40:60
There is a negative link between being God's servant and being deceived by Satan or to follow him or his agents: 17:65, 16:36
Why did Allah created us?