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Spirit of Islam Issue 35 November 2015
So, be grateful for
the seeming setbacks
and problems you
face in life. They
may be God’s way
of telling you that
He has some higher
purpose for you.
GOD HAS CREATED YOU
FOR A HIGHER PURPOSE
Find Your Purpose
R
OBERT CLIVE was a clerk in the East India Company in the
eighteenth century. Dissatisfied with his salary of a mere five
pounds a year, he decided to end his life. He pointed his revolver
to his head and pulled the trigger, but it misfired. Then, suddenly he
cried out that God had made him for a bigger task! After this, he joined
the East India Company’s Army, and gradually reached the top.
Robert Clive went on to become instrumental
in establishing British rule in India.
The Quran and
Hadith
tell us that if God
prevents a task from happening the way you
had planned it, it is a clue that He wants you
to do something else. A
Hadith
report says
that when God loves a people, He tests them
through difficulties. (
Tirmidhi
)
It is to make you rethink and re-plan your
life. If your plans do not get fulfilled, it is an
indication from God. It tells you that He has created you for something
bigger than what you are presently involved in. God has not created
you to make this world your goal and purpose and to get lost in it.
He has created you to worship Him. So, instead of chasing the world,
devote yourself to God-realisation and to inviting other people to God.
Moses was brought up in Pharaoh’s palace but God created such
conditions that his stay there could not continue. God had created
Moses not to live in the palace but for a far higher purpose—to invite
people to God.
So, be grateful for the seeming setbacks and problems you face in life.
They may be God’s way of telling you that He has some higher purpose
for you.
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