Zakir Naik – Al Quran is the Guide in this World of Test
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Whenever you have any equipment,
along with equipment
comes an instruction manual.
The more complicated the equipment,
the more requirement
of an instruction manual, so that you know
how to use the equipment.
If you allow me to call the human
being
a machine,
I would say
it is the most complicated machine in the
world. It is more complicated than the highest
computer in the world. Don't you think we
require an instruction manual?
The human being which is the most complicated
machine, if you allow me to call it
a machine, more than the most advanced computer
in the world, don't you think it requires
an instruction manual? The instruction manual
for the human being,
it is the glorious Quran.
The glorious Quran is the last and final
instruction manual revealed
by the creator of the human beings that
is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah says in the glorious Quran in Surah
Mulk chapter number 67, verse number 2,
It is Allah who has created death and
life to test which of you is good
indeed.
As I told you earlier, that Allah is
testing us.
For Allah, it's very easy.
For Allah
to make the Palestinians win over Israel, it's
kun faya kun.
Allah is testing us.
Are they struggling and striving for the cause
of Allah? Allah is testing all the human
beings in the world. Are you standing for
the truth?
So this life, according to the glorious Quran,
is the test for the hereafter.
If we pass this test, we go to
Jannah, paradise. If we fail, we go to
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we go
to Jannah.
Allah says in the Quran,
in Surah Daryaat,
chapter number 51, verse number 56,
That, I've created the jinn and the human
beings not but to worship me.
What is the purpose of our life?
Why are we here? Have we ever thought,
what are we doing here?
Allah gives the answer in Surah Darya chapter
51 verse 56,
That Allah has created
the jinn and the men not but to
worship Him. So we are in this world
for a test for thereafter.
Our role, our purpose is to worship Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And I've given a talk,
and you should see this lecture of mine.
What is the purpose of our life?
When we obey the commandments of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, we are doing Ibadah. We are
worshiping Him.
If we follow His commandments, we are worshiping
Him. If we stay away from things He
has prohibited, we are worshiping Him.
Ibadah means following
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
1st, we have to understand
the concept of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and
I'll be dealing in detail in my talk
on Friday
in Elohim,
the concept of God made over religions,
but the best reply
that any Muslim can give you regarding the
definition of Allah
is Suray class,
chapter 112,
verse number 1 to 4 where Allah says,
Say he's Allah and only.
Allah.
Allah, the absolute and eternal.
He begets not noise begotten.
They're nothing like him. This is a 4
line definition
of Allah
mentioned in the Quran, in Suray class, chapter
number 112,
verse number 1 to 4. If any person
says so and so entity is God, if
he fits in this four line definition
of Suray class, we Muslims have no objection
in accepting
that entity as Allah, as God.
The first is, Kulhu Allahu Ad. Say He's
Allah 1 and only.
Number 2, Allah.
Allah,
the absolute and eternal.
He begets not know is begotten.
They're nothing like him. This Suray class is
the touchstone of theology.
Theom is God, logic means study, theology study
of God,
and touchstone, you know, when you go to
buy and sell gold jewelry,
you go to a goldsmith,
and you want to verify
how pure is the gold. So the goldsmith
takes the gold and rubs it against the
touchstone.
And depending upon the color, he tells you
whether this gold is 24 karat gold, whether
22 karat gold, whether 18 karat gold, or
it may not be gold at all because
all that glitters is not gold.
So Suray class
is the touchstone of theology. The God you're
worshiping,
you put into the test of Suray class.
If the God you're worshiping passes the test
of Suri class, He's a true God. If
He fails the test, He's a false God.