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Islam - Children's Corner
Why am I
Alive?
Allah made humans for only one thing: to choose to serve him. He could
have made us like the Angels who have to obey and never go against His
Commands. But He wanted to make a creature that would choose to love
Him. Isn’t it more important that someone likes to be around you, rather
than having to be around you?
Allah could also have made us like the Jinn, who can go all over the
universe and can be good or bad, but they can’t see any beauty in the
creation of Allah. They just live and do whatever they do.
People can love Allah or forget Him. They can obey Allah or not listen
to His Commands. They can be the best creatures in the universe or the
worst. Allah said that He made us to be the best. The only thing is that
if we don’t try to be the best, we might go down to being the worst.
[103: 1-3]
We have a lot of responsibility on our shoulders. Our short time on
earth is a test for each and every one of us. We are born, we grow up
and then we die. In that time, we learn about good and bad, we hear
about Allah in one way or another, and we use our brains to think about
life and what it means.
If we chose by ourselves to be good, believe in Allah and live by Islam,
then we passed the test. After our bodies die, our soul inside of us
gets released into the real world, the other world. Then we will be let
into the most fabulous place of all: Paradise. We will never die and we
will never feel sad or unhappy there.
But if we let ourselves do bad things, forget about Allah and reject
Islam, then we failed the test, and in the other world, our souls will
be sent to a place to be punished. That terrible place is Hell-fire. Why
do we deserve to be punished? Because Allah gave us a mind to think and
all the proof in the world to believe in Him but we chose to follow bad
ways. Lets try real hard to pass the test of this life and avoid
Hell-fire.
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The
Holy Quran Quotes
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“O you who believe! Be afraid of Allaah and give up what remains (due to you) from Ribaa (from now onward) if you are (really) believers”
(Al-Baqarah, 2:278)
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