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    Have you ever thought about the fact that you did not exist before you were conceived and then born into the world and that you have come into existence from mere nothingness?

    Have you ever thought about how the flowers you see in your living room everyday come out of pitch black, muddy soil with fragrant smells and are as colorful as they are?

    Have you ever thought about how mosquitoes, which irritatingly fly around you, move their wings so fast that we are unable to see them?

    Have you ever thought about how the peels of fruits such as bananas, watermelons, melons and oranges serve as wrappings of high quality, and how the fruits are packed in these wrappings so that they maintain their taste and fragrance?

    Have you ever thought about the possibility that while you are asleep a sudden earthquake could raze your home, your office, and your city to the ground and that in a few seconds you could lose everything of the world you possess?

    Have you ever thought of how your life passes away very quickly, and that you will grow old and become weak, and slowly lose your beauty, health and strength?

    Have you ever thought about how one day you will find the angels of death appointed by God before you and that you will then leave this world?

    Well, have you ever thought about why people are so attached to a world from which they will soon depart when what they basically need is to strive for the hereafter?

    Man is a being whom God furnishes with the faculty of thought. Yet, most people do not use this very important faculty as they should. In fact, some people almost never think.

    In truth, each person possesses a capacity for thought of which even he himself is unaware. Once man begins to use this capacity, facts he has not been able to realise until that very moment begin to be uncovered for him.

    The deeper he goes in reflection, the more his capacity to think improves, and this is possible for everyone. One just has to realise that one needs to reflect and then to strive hard.

    Someone who does not think will remain totally distant from truths and lead his life in self-deception and error. As a result, he will not grasp the purpose of the creation of the world, and the reason for his existence on the earth. Yet, God has created everything with a purpose. This fact is stated in the Qur'an as follows:

    We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them as a game. We did not create them except with truth but most of them do not know it. (Surat ad-Dukhan: 38-39)

    Did you suppose that We created you for amusement and that you would not return to Us? (Surat al-Muminun: 115)

    Therefore, each person needs to ponder the purpose of creation, first as it concerns him himself, and then as it pertains to everything he sees in the universe and every event he experiences throughout his life. Someone who does not think, will understand the facts only after he dies, when he gives account before God, but then it will be too late.
    God says in the Qur'an that on the day of account, everybody will think and see the truth:
    That day Hell is produced, that day man will remember; but how will the remembrance help him? He will say, "Oh! If only I had prepared in advance for this life of mine!" (Surat al-Fajr: 23-24)

    The truth can be told to a person in many different ways; it can be shown by the use of details, pieces of evidence and by every means. Yet, if this person does not think over this truth on his own, sincerely and honestly with the purpose of comprehending the truth, all these efforts are useless. For this reason, when the messengers of God communicated the message to their people, they told them the truth clearly and then summoned them to think.

    While God has given us a chance in the life of this world to reflect and derive conclusions from our reflections, to see the truth will bring us great gain in our life in the hereafter. For this reason, God has summoned all people, through His prophets and books, to reflect on their creation and on the creation of the universe:

    Have they not reflected within themselves? God did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them except with truth and for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the meeting with their Lord. (Surat ar-Rum: 8)


    A man who reflects grasps the secrets of God's creation, the truth of the life of this world, the existence of hell and paradise, and the inner truth of matters. He gets a deeper understanding of the importance of being a person with whom God is pleased, and so he lives religion as is its due, recognizes God's attributes in everything he sees, and begins to think not according to what the majority of people demand but as God commands. As a result, he takes pleasure from beauty much more than others do, and does not suffer distress from baseless misapprehensions and worldly greed.

    These are only a few of the beautiful things a person who thinks will gain in the world. The gain in the hereafter of someone who always finds the truth by thinking, is the love, approval, mercy and the paradise of our Lord, which are above everything else.
     

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    Do you believe that you are born because of purpose? The purpose driven life?

    Have you ask yourself "what on earth am i here in this world for?
     

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    Do you believe that you are born because of purpose? The purpose driven life?

    Have you ask yourself "what on earth am i here in this world for?
    Yes, I already asked that to myself so many times. And I already found what is the purpose in life and that is "TO SERVE,WORSHIP AND PLEASE THE ONLY ONE TRUE GOD AND TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN THE HEREAFTER FOR THIS LIFE HEREIN IS JUST ONLY TEMPORARY"

    Smile ka muna
     

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    WHAT IS THINKING?
    What is consciousness?

    The pronouncement of the author of this thread does not exactly tell us.

    Thinking is a process of knowing. It is man's attributes and a potential power. It is volitional, meaning a choice to do it or not. It is potential power just like the power to procreate by means of sex. You either use it or not.

    The subject of thinking is either object: the outside world (extrospection) and yourself (introspection). In the outside world, the surroundings, the starting point of thinking is the use of sense perception from the five sense organ. Then form concept of knowledge (extrospection). In the introspection, it is a process of knowing the content of your mind, the source of your feelings and emotion. It is only you who can do it and nothing else.

    Thinking is a process of knowing. Knowing what?: the outside real world and the content of your mind resulting into feelings and emotions. The resulting knowledge: Science and psychology.

    The author says that deep thinking is knowing the purpose of creation. Let us know first what is creation. What is creation? Is creation a process of transforming the raw materials to another form? Or is it a process of forming something out of nothing? Answering that question is thinking?
     

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