What is the Aim and purpose of Human Life?
It is a common question which strikes every curious person in his lifetime at some stage of his mental development, and he satisfies himself by answering that the aim of human life is to attain success in ones life, and the success in his eyes is a comfortable and prosperous life, and it is a very secular objective, any person regardless of his religion needs the food and money, but if you search the internet then you will find that many religious persons and organizations claims that the Aim of human life is to follow their religious deities respectively, but actually the real Aim of human life is really secular, it is not religious, and it is a thing of daily need, and it is needed by any person, now to explore the secular aim of human life consider the question again and ask, 'What is the Aim of human life?
It is a common question, which strikes every curious person in his lifetime at some stage of his mental development, and he satisfies himself by answering that the aim of human life is to attain success in ones life, and the success in his eyes is a comfortable and prosperous life, in which a person has a good job or a good business and even a factory and farm and farm house and properties and bungalows and many cars and a huge bank balance, and he has good careers of his sons and daughters, his sons and daughters also has big bank balance and factories and farm houses and property and good business and if they are in service then they are at higher positions, and there is every thing they have with all means of comfort and convenience, such as good and separate bungalow, air conditioned rooms and a beautiful garden and plenty of water and electricity, comfortable dinning rooms and lavish bathrooms fitted with Jacuzzi and spa services and in built office and conference room and servants for different works and separate cooks and managers for looking different works of factories and business. This was a concept of a successful life of some peoples and there are lots of peoples having this type of life, now due to the development in technology the equipments of comfort and convenience are reaching in the hands of more and more peoples and every body wants to live a comfortable and successful life and therefore every body is continuously trying to acquire the means of comfort by working very hard in his business and jobs. Now consider a boy who studies in his school then he pass the examinations in good ranks then he joins in higher education and here too he passes the examinations in good ranks and after passing his trainings he joins a good job in a high rank, then he gets a big salary, then he purchases a bungalow, and his bungalow is fully furnished with Italian furniture and Iranian carpets Belgium glasses Japanese curtains, and his servants are holding European dogs in their hands and then he marries with a rich man’s daughter and the father of his wife may be a minister in government, and his entire life passes in prosperity and comfort and convenience, he has every thing, his fore yard of bungalow is full of different cars and his back yard has drivers quarters and servants rooms, and his home is equipped with internet and plasma T.V sets and his garden is having water pumps and sprinkler fitted with micro processor controlled electronic system and his living room has huge curtains and beach view or sun set view and his doors are fitted with imported Italian fittings his drawing room has in built swimming pool, his wife is the most beautiful girl and he himself is a very intelligent and wise person, his health is the best among his age group persons and his memory is incredible and he has parents who are retired from high ranking corporate jobs, his father was chief executive officer CEO and his mother was Managing director of a commercial bank, his brothers are also in government services in the very high ranking positions and his sisters are Doctors and they are having their own big hospitals in the entire district, and the husbands of his sisters are also in the very high ranking positions either in government jobs or they are having their own factories and industries, his parents who are now retired are passing their time in different social activities such as becoming member of volleyball associations of retired persons or becoming members of different charitable trusts and after retirement they are earning more money by opening new schools and institutes and his mother too doing the same work at different location and when they want they go on world tour and shopping and they have a very tight schedule for tourism and shopping at every month in a different location and they have not left any single place of pilgrimage where they not had been since their retirement and at some places of the pilgrimage they visit it several times in the past couple of years as if they have become its addict, and in between this they had different old age sicknesses but they had plenty of money and state of the art medical technology support so they undergo every treatment very easily, and after leading a very long life they dies one day, and a huge crowd of peoples arrived in their funeral and they were very especially allowed to be buried near the tomb of a very famous saint, where common peoples even can not think of getting even near of that place, people remember their evening walk and their participation in the poetic nights and their articles and poems published in the news papers, even some memorial trust has been made in their name. This is a description of a comfortable and prosperous human life, but you tell me is this the Aim of human life? Not only humans but even the animals very often get good opportunities and good means of comfortable life, consider the case of a rich man’s Dog, the rich man’s dog has every comfort in his life, he eats canned dog biscuits, rich man’s servants gives him bath in Luke warm water, and he has soft sofas to sleep in and the rich man’s wife loves and hugs him, and when ever he becomes sick, a trained veterinary doctor treats him in his hospital, and when he dies the rich man and his family mourn for him for a while, even some peoples bury him in cemetery and make his grave, and the rich man and his family has many photos with him. And consider a case of other animals and insects who are in the forests and woods and jungles and in the wilderness and away from the city and who live in farms and trees and in the forests, these animals try hard as per their nature to get what they want, they gets food, they make partners and children, they are quite successful in their life because they are self supporting and self sustaining in this world of competition and struggle, in the life of forest they them self finds their food, shelter and they reproduce them self by acquiring suitable partners, no man gives them food, no man protects them in their wilderness, look at the insects, they eat and grow as per their nature, we humans do not feed them, the animals and insects are thousands and millions in number and we are not feeding them, but they are leading a successful life in their level, all animals and insects are well stable and they have their own achievements in their life. Struggling for a comfortable life style is an animal behaviour, and the aim of animal life is to give a way to a more advanced and superior species and the aim of animal life has already expired when the first man kept foot on this earth thousands of years ago, all the feeding and eating of animals and plants, and all the competitions and struggles for survivals were had a definite aim, as you know very well that when a plant grows and through out one complete year it bears leaves and finally it bears flowers and the flower becomes its fruit and the fruit contains its seeds, the plant bears leaves and it tolerates the harshness of seasons and it tolerates the birds and insects sitting in its branches and animals and birds eating its fruits, the plant bears all these pains because the aim is to produce seeds, the seeds are not only the guarantee of its survival but they are the food of other animals, all grains we eat are seeds of grasses, the wheat and rice and maize and corn are seeds, the fruits are very attractive for animals and birds as they have very delicious heavenly tastes, and why these brain less trees have so tasty fruits, the answer is the trees wants that their seeds should travel and spread long distances, the trees cannot move but their seeds can travel long distances by the help of animals and birds. and the trees and plants and grasses are quite successful in their life, and the animals and insects who live in the forests are also quite successful in their life and achievements and the farm animals and cows and buffalos and goats and chickens in the farm are also successful because they have a comfortable life in the farm, the doctors inspects them and the owner of the farm feeds them good fodder and they drink clean water and they have good shelter and their farm is most modern, and so is the rich man’s dog has a very comfortable life. Now tell me Is leading a successful life is only the aim of human life, if yes, then we are not any more superior than animals and insects, the Aim of life of animals and insects is not just passing the life in the best suitable way, but the aim of the life of animals and insects was to evolve the life in higher and higher forms and to culminate in the form of humans on the earth, all the animals and insects and birds in the world are having ecological niches, they support the ecology and this support gives benefits to the human life, the humans are having consciousness and intelligence and all other creatures of the world are not having the intelligence and consciousness, and no other single animal or insect is so intelligent and self conscious as we humans are, there fore the aim of the animal life was to support to and to culminate in the form of the human life, all the life cycles and metamorphosis of insects and the struggles for life of animals and all the food eaten by the animals and insects was only for the support of human appearance in the world, and once the humans appeared on the earth the duty and aim of life of the animal kingdom shifted to the mere support of the ecology, and now we are the fruit and seeds of the life on the earth, the duty and aim of the seed is different from the leaf and stem of the plant, and now our aim can not be simply eating and drinking and enjoying the life time, because eating and getting comfort in life is a way of animal life, and if we are now doing the same and wanting the same then we are not the ultimate and final creatures on the earth, but the more advanced and perfect species will be arriving after us, because we are only giving way to new creatures to come and occupy our position, our desire for the animal type of life style suggest this, eating and enjoying and acquiring comfort and prosperity is an animalistic life style, but if you believe that the humans are the final species on the earth then, our Aim of life and the Animal’s aim of life should be different, and more difficult than eating, and it can not be same as the aim of animal’s life, unless we assume ourselves to be an intermediate species, between us and a new and more intelligent species evolving from us, but if you believe that we humans are the ultimate and last and final creature and species on the earth then our aim of life should be some thing different from seeking comfort and convenience in the life time. Then what is our aim of life? Our aim of life is to achieve a difficult thing, which can not be achieved by any animalistic style, and our Aim of life should be a more difficult thing than capturing the food and drinks, all the animals and insects and birds and reptiles are created in different configurations suitable to their own life styles and locations and we the final and ultimate species are created by selecting the best suitable features and configurations out of all other creatures, we have all the best features of lower plants and animals in our body and we have unique mind and intelligence and consciousness and information processing and transmitting ability,
no other animal is capable of this, and our aim of life is also unique, and more difficult to attain, since the birth of human society there existed the need for establishing peace and justice in the society, because now the humans are no more remained animals but they are now civilized nations, their societies are groups of different individuals living in a city or town, there is need for relationships between the persons living in a town, there is need for food and clothing and other items of need, when the man was living in the forest as a hunter and gatherer he was self sufficient just like other animals were in the forest, but the needs of man increased and for cooperation and help and support the man formed small groups of few peoples or a family and started living in small groups near the river banks and near trees and water springs, this was the start of a small town and the man lost his real liberty here, the town grew up and more and more peoples gathered there as the daily need items were available in these towns, and exchange of items was carried out and markets and small industries developed such as cloth weaving and pottery and wood tools making and farming and cultivation work started and the disputes among the peoples also started now, and now the most respected and elderly and wise and just men from the town were given the task of an arbitrator or a judge for the disputes , as the grand father in the families plays the role of a judge, and over time unknowingly the most healthy and powerful young men became the judge of the town and this was the start of the imperial era in the human history, there is plenty of food and land in the world, as the other animals the life of the humans can continue on the earth by eating and drinking and in seeking comfort and convenience for long times and the struggle for survival became more and more painful in case of the humans because the humans have consciousness, and the animals do not have this, so now there arose the need for justice and peace in the society and in the distributions of commodities and duties of the city dwellers, and this need is unique in the world, and this need is to establish and restore peace and justice in the human society, and it is a secular demand. The creator of the universe made perfect planning and preparations to guide the man from the very beginning and he guided the man by his rules and laws by his revelations given by some selected and noble persons in the past, these revelations guided the man how to establish a just and peaceful civilized society, but unfortunately all the guidance and instructions of our creator became either contaminated and corrupt over time or they were misinterpreted or misunderstood by the peoples, and became untrustworthy to utilize and there fore the creator of the universe guided the man kind by his last and final and the most protected set of instructions, this last and final guidance of our creator is the most pure and genuine set of his rules instructions and law, and it is the most protected and uncontaminated guidance, In his final guidance we humans are instructed and guided to obey our creator and to restore peace and justice in the human society, and our creator promised us to reward us if we obey him, and obeying him means to obey his instructions and rules and regulation of establishing peace and justice, and by obeying him we can attain the eternal peace and comfort and this is the aim of human life. The peace and justice is a thing which can be disturbed very easily in the human society and this is the thing which is very difficult to restore once it is lost, entire life time is needed to restore it, and it is the same thing which is the most comfortable and most noble, the eating and drinking and celebrations and gathering wealth can not solve the problems of in injustice and discriminations. There is none other greater sin than to break other people’s rights, and to deliberately hurt other peoples, and the act of not considering other people’s convenience, and to create difficulties for the other peoples. If we only pass all our generation in only earning money and in sleeping and if we neglect our surroundings then the mighty powerful peoples will dominate the world affairs and one day we will become slaves, this is a natural phenomenon and if we want to live a real liberal and comfortable life then our aim of life should be to obey our God and to struggle to restore peace and justice in the society, if we become lazy and lethargic and ignored the surroundings then the other ignorant peoples will become our masters, just as suppose that you are sitting in the comfortable arm chair in your lavish garden enjoying the finest aroma of your drink in a lovely evening and you just continued sitting till the evening turned into the darkness of night, the darkness will prevail automatically because it is a natural phenomenon and if you want light then you have to fight the darkness by burning candles or fire or electricity, if you will not do any thing then you will remain in the darkness for ever, your laziness is sufficient to keep the darkness in power. Then the evil will have a free hand and monopoly to operate, and if any body tells them that this is my opinion and it is very good for all mankind and this should be followed and obeyed by all peoples, then there are many different peoples with many different opinions they will stand over and they will argue that no no my opinion is the best, and there will be others then they will tell that no no my opinion is the best, and so on there will be an un limited dispute among the peoples, and the difference in the opinions are not over still today, but due to power and might some opinions are dominating the other in different regions of the world, but the best opinion is not my opinion and it is also not your opinion but it is the opinion of our creator, our creator is the God, and his opinion is the best and there is no problem to any body to accept the opinion of our God, after all you are not obeying my opinion or any body other’s opinion, but we all are obeying the opinion of our God, and now it is the duty of the wise persons to search for and find out the pure and uncontaminated opinion of our lord from the junk of other man made opinions.
Our aim is not to become a clerk or a teacher or a shopkeeper or a servant and to pass entire life in obtaining food and clothing, all the above acts are not the aim of our life but they are the means of our survival, but after our survival the question of aim of our existence arises, but in our practical world the means of survival have became so difficult that we start struggling to obtain them since our early adulthood, and pass our entire life in running behind them, and in this struggle the actual aim of our life becomes so obscured that we start assuming the means of survival to be the main objective of our life, and this is the illusion, and in this struggle we neglect our surroundings and the evil takes advantage of this neglect and it prevails in our society, this is the cause of injustice and it becomes our lord.
The peoples who have acquired all the means of successful life are the persons who can achieve the aim of life on behalf of all other humans because these are the super human beings, evolved from the rest of the mankind and now the aim of all other humans is shifted towards supporting these super humans and giving way to the struggle of restoration of peace and justice in the human society by these super human beings, and if these super humans will not perform their duty, then they will be eliminated by the natural selection process and they will become extinct and fossilized and there be another super humans will evolve and the responsibility shifts on their shoulders, the history of the Muslims is the witness of this brutal process.
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