The real purpose of all the external and internal limbs and faculties that have been bestowed on man is understanding and worship and love of God.
That is why, despite a thousand occupations, man does not find his true well-being except in God Almighty.
Having acquired great wealth, or achieved high office, or having become a great merchant, or having acquired governing authority, or become a great philosopher, he departs in the end from these worldly involvements with a sense of frustration.
His heart rebukes him all the time about his deep concern with the world and his conscience never approves his wiles and deceits and wrongful actions.
This problem can be appreciated in another way. The purpose of the creation of a thing is determined by its highest achievement beyond which its faculties cannot rise.
For instance, the highest a bullock is capable of is ploughing, or irrigation, or transportation, and therefore these are the purpose of its life and it cannot rise above them.
But when we take stock of man’s faculties and powers to discover his highest capacity, we find that he is invested with the faculty of seeking after God so much so that he desires that he should become so devoted to God’s love that he should have nothing of his own and that everything should become God’s.
He shares his natural needs like food and drink and rest with other animates, and in industry some animals are ahead of him; for instance, the bees produce such excellent honey from every type of flower that man has so far not been able to compete with them.
It is clear, therefore, that the highest capacity of man is meeting with God Almighty and thus the true purpose of his life is that the window of his heart should open towards God.
[His Holiness Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Promised Messiah and Mahdi, The Essence of Islam, Vol. II, pp.462-463, Ed. 2004]
The Ahmadiyya Post, Religion. By Zubair Ahmed. Sept 7th 2011
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