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Does Islam Give Me A Reason To Wake Up Everyday?
Making Your Life Matter
Let me describe some phenomena.
A person who suffered from mental illness has decided to help people who are going through a similar experience. A person feels the pain of orphans wishes to do something for them. A person sees the lack of basic facilities in Africa and decides to help them by. A person who wants to contribute towards science and technology studies hard, becomes a scientist, and brings his/her innovations infront of the world. A person wants to serve by being a doctor. A person who wants to change lives as a musician. And so on.
There are many common patterns among all these – creating an impact, doing something big in life, making one’s life matter, serving humanity, and so on. But the common pattern that I want to bring attention to is that they provide a very strong sense of drive in a person’s life. It makes them obsessed. It gives them a reason to wake up each day.
Such people live not to just exist in this world but to create an impact and make there lives matter.
When they die, it is a loss to humanity.
I don’t know what word to use for this – Purpose? Ambition? Goal? Mission?
Ibadah & Tazkiya
The purpose of life is Ibadah. The criteria of success in the Hereafter is Tazkiya. These are different things. The stuff I mentioned above fall under a completely different bracket. Doing Tazkiya is like a checkbox that I need to maintain so that my life will be successful in hereafter. It doesn’t give me a strong reason to wake up each day. I can’t call it spirituality as it is referred as exploring one’s inner self.
Questions
Q1. What word can we use to describe the phenomenon I described above that doesn’t create dissonance with the terms Ibadah(purpose) and Tazkiya(goal)?
Q2. Does Islam inforce such things as part of religion or is it a personal preference of ambitions?
Q3. Can a strong sense of drive in one’s life be drawn from Islam directly? For a very long time I was in search for such a thing inside Islam but couldn’t find one.Q4. Does voluntarily adopting such a life increase that chances and levels of success in the Hereafter, as we will have more opportunities to opt Tazkiya as a scientist/leader/erc than a normal person?
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Does Islam Give Me A Reason To Wake Up Everyday?
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The comparison you made was not necessary. These are two different categories. To purify yourself is a constant demand from God and Deen in whatever you do. This goal for humans set by God encompasses all your life. If you want to help people that must be with a pure intention. You won’t exploit them for their gratefulness to you, for example.
Now what course of action you choose for your life is your personal choice for which you have all the faculties given to you by God. Islam needs not to tell you what profession you should choose, or to what extent you should go to help people. However, God has told you that every bit of your good and bad deed will be judged and you will be rewarded or punished for your conscious decisions.
However, God has told us that He is pleased with the person who serves humanity. He made zakat/charity a pillar of his Deen, whichat is to benefit human beings. He entices the believers to take care of orphans, feed the hungry and if needed, lay their lives to end the persecution of human beings.
Now the choices are open to everyone in the light of their conscience and aptitude.
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Which faculty of humans is behind “dreaming big”? Is it the Nafs?
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To be ambitious. The same faculty that made them accept the burden of “Amanat” (to be responsible and answerable for their own deeds) from which heaven and mountains shirked. See the verse: 33: 72
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To what exactly can we point at and hopefully fix, when we sense that we have forgotten the burden of Amaanat.
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Need to listen to the voice of our conscience, remember the accountability in the hereafter and be aware of our morality and moral duties whether they are with God or with other human beings.
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