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What is the purpose of life according to Islam?

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What is the purpose of life according to Islam?

It is belief which makes man truly human, but it has to be belief that is predicated on a particular way of reading the creation. Creation is like a book and the book is full of paragraphs, sentences, words, letters, dots and dashes. Everything in the book indicates the book has an author; the book and the fact that there... Show more >>

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Imam al-Iṣfahānī sets out the purpose of man as involving three duties: the duty of imarah (the cultivation of the earth), the duty of ibadah (worship), and the duty of khilafah (vicegerency): Man was created for three purposes. Man's first purpose is in the cultivation of the earth, as is implied in... Show more >>

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