Quotes About the Purpose of Life

“Imam al-Shafi`ee was asked: "What's better for the believer, to be tested, or to be given power (to do good)?" He said: "And how can one be given power for good without first being tested? Allah tested Yusuf, peace be upon him, then He gave him power."

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“So what does our deen (religion) want? In a nutshell, what Allah wants from us is to constantly try to get better. Not to become perfect, but to get better. Get better than what? Get better than who? Get better than yourself from yesterday.

We just have to constantly try to improve. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if we’re talking about ourselves as teachers, da’ies (preachers and advocates), worshipers, as Muslims in any capacity — all our deen wants is constant effort to improve.

If we internalize that, then it gives us many benefits. One of the most important benefits of that realization is, we will never be satisfied with where we are.

Nouman Ali Khan

“I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

Said Nursi

“You can’t just live life waiting for the next weekend to come. Your aspiration should be greater than that. It should be paradise and that should be sought everyday.

Abdulbary Yahya

“To emphasize the afterlife is to have a life, without the afterlife, life is not worth living.

Abdulbary Yahya

“You were born to pray. So why would you rush during that which you were born for?

Husain Abdul Sattar

“The goal of this life is to realize the Truth of God’s greatness and my own insignificance and need before Him. The goal is to take myself out of the center and put Him there instead.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The dunya (that great job, certain type of spouse, having a child, school, career, etc) is our end and *Allah* is the means that we use to get there. We use that means, through making du`a’, to achieve our end (whatever it is that we’re making du`a’ for), and then get disappointed when our means (Allah) didn’t come through for us. We throw our hands up in the air and say our du`a’ are not being answered. Our means just isn’t coming through for us!

But, Allah isn’t a means. He is the end. The ultimate objective of even du`a’ itself is to build our connection to Allah. Through du`a’ we become closer to Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.

Tariq Ramadan

“People always ask: how to balance dunya and deen. It is simple. Use dunya for deen. Deen/Allah is the goal. Dunya is the tool to get there.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The objective of life is to break every chain that holds you down, to hand them back to false masters and say with all self that you have only one Master.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Marriage is not the End or purpose of life. Marriage is one means to the End or purpose of Life.

Yasmin Mogahed

“But, what if every single stumble, every challenge, every experience in our life was only intended for one purpose: to bring us back to our origin? What if every win, every loss, every beauty, every fall, every cruelty, and every smile was only intended to unveil another barrier between us and God? Between us and where we began, and where we are desperately seeking to return?

Yasmin Mogahed

“What if everything—everything—was just about seeing You?

Yasmin Mogahed

“I don't belong to any of this. I belong to You.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Salah is something we squeeze into our day, when we find time—if that. Our ‘lives’ don’t revolve around salah. Salah revolves around our ‘lives.’ If we’re in class, salah is an afterthought. If we’re at the mall, the Macy’s sale is more urgent. Something is seriously wrong when we put aside the very purpose of our existence in order to watch a basketball game.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Reflecting upon this incident scholars have explained that the process of going from fifty to five was a deliberate one, intended to teach us the true place salah should hold in our lives. Imagine for a moment actually praying fifty times a day. Would we be able to do anything else but pray? No. And that’s the point. What greater way than that to illustrate our life’s true purpose? As if to say, salah is our real life; all the rest that we fill our day with…just motions.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Acts of worship empower and uplift us because Allah created us to worship Him. So by worshipping Him, we fulfill our purpose in being here.

Yasir Qadhi

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