On Oct 27, 4:18 am, abdo911 wrote:
What is your purpose in life? What is the rationale behind our life?

Must there be a single purpose or rationale? Why?


Why do we live in this life? These questions frequently intrigue
people who try to find accurate answers.

Perhaps this has more to do with ill-conceived questions than with the
lack of satisfactory answers.

People provide different answers to these questions. Some people
believe the purpose of life is to accumulate wealth. But one may
wonder: What is the purpose of life after one has collected colossal
amounts of money?

I don't know. To collect even more colossal amounts of money, perhaps?

What then? What will the purpose be once money is
gathered?

This would probably depend upon why money is being gathered in the
first place. Perhaps someone
simply wants a lot of money so that they no longer have to think about
money, so that they can relax and
not worry about how to pay the rent anymore. Is that so wrong?

If the purpose of life is to gain money, there will be no
purpose after becoming wealthy.

Why not? Perhaps the purpose would be to become even more wealthy, or
to care for one's kids, or to open an animal shelter,
or to do any one of a million things that you might find rewarding and
gratifying. Perhaps the 'problem' with life is not that it lacks
purpose but makes available *too many* purposes.

And in fact, here lies the problem of
some disbelievers or misbelievers at some stage of their life, when
collecting money is the target of their life. When they have collected
the money they dreamt of, their life loses its purpose.

You assume that these people are collecting money just for the sake of
collecting money and not for some other end.
This seems questionable.


They suffer
from the panic of nothingness and they live in tension and
restlessness.

Many people who aren't particularly interested in money suffer from
this as well.

Can Wealth Be an Aim?
We often hear of a millionaire committing suicide, sometimes, not the
millionaire himself but his wife, son, or daughter. The question that
poses itself is: Can wealth bring happiness to one's life? In most
cases the answer is NO.

Can poverty and/or debt bring unhappiness to one's life? In nearly all
cases the answer is YES.


Is the purpose of collecting wealth a standing
purpose? As we know, the five-year old child does not look for wealth:
a toy for him is equal to a million dollars. The eighteen-year old
adolescent does not dream of wealth because he is busy with more
important things. The ninety-year old man does not care about money;
he is worried more about his health. This proves that wealth cannot be
a standing purpose in all the stages of the individual's life.
Wealth can do little to bring happiness to a disbeliever, because he/
she is not sure about his fate. A disbeliever does not know the
purpose of life. And if he has a purpose, this purpose is doomed to be
temporary or self destructive.

You certainly haven't established any of this so far.


What is the use of wealth to a disbeliever if he feels scared of the
end and skeptical of everything.

Perhaps the disbeliever wants to load up on lots of expensive radio
gear. Pehaps his kid needs an operation. Maybe the
rent is due. Etc.

A disbeliever may gain a lot of
money, but will surely lose himself.

If so, he can give all his money away. The debt collectors will surely
find him, and thereby enable him to find himself!

Worshipping Allah as an Aim
On the contrary, faith in Allah gives the believer the purpose of life
that he needs. In Islam, the purpose of life is to worship Allah. The
term "Worship" covers all acts of obedience to Allah.
The Islamic purpose of life is a standing purpose. The true Muslim
sticks to this purpose throughout all the stages of his life, whether
he is a child, adolescent, adult, or an old man.
Worshipping Allah makes life purposeful and meaningful, especially
within the framework of Islam.

Especially? That's an understatement.

You need to do a little more homework, then attempt this post a second
time.