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The Purpose of Existence September9, 2012
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Quran 2:30 · Al-Baqarah
▶ 10:55
Quran 2:30 · Al-Baqarah
▶ 11:44
Quran 30:41 · Ar-Rum
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Quran 2:31 · Al-Baqarah
▶ 18:28
Quran 2:33 · Al-Baqarah
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Quran 2:35 · Al-Baqarah
▶ 24:52
Quran 7:23 · Al-A'raf
▶ 26:19
Quran 2:34 · Al-Baqarah
▶ 28:36
Quran 5:28 · Al-Ma'idah
▶ 30:04
Quran 29:14 · Al-Ankabut
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Purpose of existence unsolved for 3000 years
“Aaj ka topic hai 'the purpose of existence'”
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3000 years of philosophy failed to answer life's purpose
“Rene Descartes, French philosopher, died in 1650”
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The Quran alone answers the purpose of existence
“Mera discovery yeh hai ke iska jawab sirf Quran hai”
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Angels doubted man would corrupt earth, Quran confirms it happened
“Allah made man khalifa and gave him charge of earth”
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Judging God's creation by the wrong criteria
“Hum wrong criteria se judge kar rahe hain is situation ko”
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Hospital analogy: why history looks like failure
“Jaise is building ko aap judge karein hospital ke criteria se”
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Becoming a 'big bird thinker' who rises above ideologies
“Ismein kehta hoon 'big bird thinker'”
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This world was never meant to be a perfect paradise
“Yeh duniya Allah ne isliye nahi banayi ke aapko perfect world mile”
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Story of Adam: sin, deep repentance, and forgiveness
“Shuru hi mein Allah ne do misalein qaim kar dein: Iblis aur Adam”
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Iblis's refusal to repent sets history's second path
“Dusri misal Iblis ki hai”
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Iblis refused to admit his mistake, lost blessing forever
“Iblis ne bhi ghalti ki, magar apni ghalti ka aitraf nahi kiya”
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Habil's example: never make the forbidden permissible
“Adam ki agli nasl mein do paida hue: Habil aur Qabil”
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Prophet Yunus: anger, mistake, and returning in repentance
“Ek misal Yunus ki hai”
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Pharaoh's wife chooses eternal paradise over worldly power
“Hazrat Musa ke zamane mein Firaun ki biwi thi Asiya”
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Pharaoh's magicians defy death for truth they discovered
“Hazrat Musa ka jo mojza dikhaya tha, unki laathi saanp ban gayi”
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Magicians tell Pharaoh: this world is only temporary
“Jo faisla tumko karna hai, karo, tum sirf duniya ke liye kar sakte ho”
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Prophet Muhammad never spoke against those who exiled him
“Makkah mein logon ne unki sakht mukhalifat ki”
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Hajira alone in the desert with total trust in God
“Hajirah ko aap dekhiye, Hajirah ek lady thi”
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Hajira's declaration of faith alone in the desert
“Kya Allah ne aapko hukum diya hai ke aap aisa karein?”
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History is a jungle, but diamonds shine within it
“Human history is little more than a register of crimes, said a Western historian”
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Why a perfectly just political system is impossible
“Jin so-called Muslim thinkers ne Aristotle ke concept ko Islamize kiya”
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Build an ideological empire of the mind, not material wealth
“Quran ki ek ayat hai: rizq rabbik khair”
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The real purpose of existence: becoming worthy of paradise
“Yeh hai purpose of existence, Allah ka purpose yeh nahi hai”
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Gratitude is a vast subject, science gave it new scale
“Shukr jo hai, bahut hi vast subject hai”
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The science of rain reveals a new scale of gratitude
“Insan yehi paani hai, har aadmi paani peeta raha hai”
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Quran doesn't affect every reader equally, and that's natural
“Quran ko bhi sab log padhte hain, to kya sabko yaksaan asar hota hai?”
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What 'peace of heart' really means in the Quran
“Itminan ke maani happiness nahi hain”
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Muslim violence today has nothing to do with Quran or jihad
“Jo baat hai woh yeh hai ke jo prophets ki zindagi se dekha gaya”
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Why political Islamism leads only to violence, never justice
“Mahatma Gandhi aur Nehru ka bhi hai, to aap unko bura kyun kehte hain?”
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Self-respect and pride are arrogance, not virtue
“Khuddari khoobi hi nahi hai, woh to arrogance hai”
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No degree needed for greatness — Edison had none
“Thomas Edison ka koi degree nahi thi”
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