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Having a sense of purpose!

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shibli:
A question. Imagine if you died today. Have you done enough? Ask yourself deep deep down, if you died right now, would you honestly think you are absolutely 100% going to Jannah? Death should not be a taboo subject & I feel we need to think about it daily. So for today have this question at the front of your mind & think about it. Death is inevitable. But where we go after Death is down to Allah & our actions.

bidita:
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose  perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.......Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.....

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of  well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace

bidita:
What is the Importance of ‘Religion’?

Why do we need religion in our lives? What good does it do to us?

The importance of religion lies primarily in the moral and socio-moral aspect of human existence.

We know that one of the most significant differences between human and other living beings is the moral and the socio-moral aspect of human existence. Human is not merely a physical being. On the contrary, Human has a strong moral aspect to his/her existence. This moral and socio-moral aspect of human existence is the foundation on which the legal and social structures that we see in all the societies have evolved overtime. It is in fact the acceptance, appreciation and realization of mutual rights and responsibilities, which has resulted in the strong bonds of family, friendship, tribe and society.

The whole corpus of religion is, in fact, based upon the realization, recognition and acceptance of our part of the relationship between ourselves and our unseen Creator and Provider. After realizing the existence of an unseen Creator and benefiting from the extra-ordinary blessings of the Merciful Provider, it becomes our moral obligation to show our gratefulness and gratitude for all the blessings that we enjoy; to seek and realize the purpose for which God has created us; and to find out if God has given us any information of His likes and dislikes and then to try to live a life, which is in agreement with this purpose of life and with the likes and dislikes of our Creator.

For a better understanding, we may roughly compare ‘religion’ to an employment or a job. In a job, an employer promises to provide the employee with certain benefits and privileges in return for the employee’s services. Now, obviously, an effective and a useful employee would only be the one, who fully appreciates the purpose of his employment, the work that his employer expects from him and then tries his best to fulfill the purpose of his job and the expectations of his employer[1]. Thus, continuing with our analogy between ‘religion’ and ‘employment’, we may derive that, from a strictly moral perspective, the significance and importance of religion in man’s life, in general, is comparable to the significance of his understanding of the purpose and the description of his employment in an organization, in his economic life. Just as an employee is not likely to be effective (or successful) without realizing and fulfilling the expectations that his employers have from him, man is also not likely to live a life, which is coherent with the moral aspect of his existence, without ‘religion’.

In essence, therefore, ‘religion’ holds significance in man’s life because man knows himself to be morally obliged to acknowledge and respond, in the most appropriate and befitting manner, to the great bounties and privileges that God has bestowed upon him.

Works cited from:
http://www.understanding-islam.com/rov/ov-012.htm

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