What is the main Purpose of Islam?
The main purpose of Islam is to unite humanity through belief in one unseen Creator and to guide people toward truth and righteousness by following Creator’s divine guidance, by holybook Quran. It aims to foster unity, promote justice and compassion, and protect individuals and societies from division, misguidance, conflict, and injustice.
What is Tawhid and Core Belief of Islam:
The core belief of Muslims is Tawhid (believe in one unseen Creator) who created human beings and make this life as a test (trail) for recording everyone’s actions. And after death, on the day of judgment, He will resurrect everyone for accountability, rewarding those who did good to others and punishing those who did wrong to others, leading to an unimaginable and eternal life in the Hereafter.
1. Purpose of Core Belief:
Tawhid (Believing in One Unseen Creator) makes humans United. Fear of accountability in afterlife enforces self-controlled, justified actions (even they are hidden) to stabilize social life. Hope of eternal reward in afterlife promotes right actions and brings peace and justice in life.
1. True Believe is core foundation for unity, equality, peace, true guidance and stable society for humanity.
2. While Assumptions based Wrong believes are the biggest injustice with humanity, distort believes always creates divisions (which leads conflicts, confusions, wrong guidance and long term instabilities with injustice).
| “And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided…” Aal-e-Imran (3:103)
| “Indeed, Allah does not forgive Shirk (associates with Allah),…” An-Nisa (4:116)
2. Why believe in Creator’s Presence is Unseen:
Creator’s presence is unseen, so social life is not directly controlled by force or fear. Believing in Creator only possible by seeing his signs in nature.
| “Indeed, within the heavens and earth are signs for the believers. And in your own creation, and whatever living beings He dispersed, are signs for people of sure faith.” Al-Jathiya (45:3–4)
| “Say, ‘He is Allah, [who is] One. Allah, the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is born, nor is there to Him any equivalent.’” Al-Ikhlas (112)
| “And they ask you concerning the Spirit (ar-Rūḥ). Say: The Spirit is of the affair of my Lord. And mankind has not been given of knowledge except a little.” Al-Isra 17:85
| “And if all the trees on the earth were pens and the sea were ink, with seven more seas added to it, the words of Allah would not be exhausted. Indeed, Allah is All-Mighty, All Wise.” Al-Luqman (31:27)
| “And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge….” Al-Isra (17:36)
| “O you who believe! Avoid much assumptions. Indeed, some assumptions are sin….” Al-Hujurat (49:12)
Also Creator has already placed the true believe in Humans hearts and sense of true and false for self judgment.
| “By the soul and the One who formed it, and inspired it with its wrongdoing and its righteousness, successful indeed is the one who purifies it.” Ash-Shams (91:7–9)
3. Purpose of Life (Believing in Life is test on earth):
Life on earth is a designed test for everyone to record their good or bad responses on presented events, and about their efforts how they learned from truth, practice it and forward it to next.
Prophets also taught; Each Human is a role model for others; his good and bad action effects and influence other’s actions too. Everything with will be judge in afterlife.
| “He who created death and life to test you as to which of you is best in deed…..” Al-Mulk (67:2)
4. Believing in Afterlife’s Accountability for Reward or Punish:
The resurrection after death leads to a Day of Judgment, where every action with intention will be accounted for. Those who chose wrongdoing (unjust with others) will face punishment, while those who lived with righteousness will receive eternal reward in Paradise — including the supreme honor of meeting their Lord.
Identical lifes, death, memories and actions with aftereffects for other humans are the clear signs for the Resurrection.
5. Meaning of Worship:
True worship means purifying thoughts, souls and actions, by praising One Creator for everything with Patience and Gratitude, while seeking forgiveness for own ignorance and mistakes with humility.
Ka’ba in Islam, is a symbol for one direction and unity on earth, it is not an object to worship.
| “Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but true righteousness is in one who believes in Allah, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets; who gives wealth ‘despite loving it’ to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask, and for freeing slaves; who establishes prayer and gives zakāh; who keeps their promises when they make them; and those who are patient in hardship, suffering, and during battle. Those are the ones who are truthful, and it is they who are the righteous.” — Al-Baqarah 2:177
| “You are the best nation produced for mankind: you enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrong, and believe in Allah.”- Āl-‘Imrān 3:110