The Greatest Question
God is the Creator and Sustainer of the World. God has created man as an eternal creature and divided his life into two parts, a small part before death to test him, while the major part lies after death, where he will receive the reward or punishment for his actions.
Man comes to this world equipped with an excellent mind and an excellent body. Therefore, the first thing one must think of is how he came into being. Then, the world in which he finds himself is an exceptionally favourable one for him to survive in. On earth he finds that he can live in comfort. There is the sun which continuously gives light and energy to him. The earth has fertile soil in which all kinds of crops can grow. There is abundant water, which is essential for sustaining life. The planet earth has air which unceasingly provides him with oxygen.
The earth inhabited by man supports him in numerous ways. There is a life support system of a very high order. Without this it would have been impossible for man to survive or make progress. It is a fact that man has been granted so many blessings that it is impossible to count them all. Only some of these blessings have been discovered by science. These too are so immense in number that even if someone studied them all his life, he would not be able to learn about all of them.
This situation poses great questions which no man or woman can overlook. Man’s own astonishing existence and the beautiful world around him compel him to ponder upon how all this came about.
We have to ask these questions: who made me? Who has created this world? Who created this most meaningful life-support system and gave it to me? Everything in this world is a great blessing and everything is silently giving a call and inviting us to ponder over this matter and discover who the Giver of all these blessings is.
There is another very grave matter linked to this question and that is the ephemerality of human existence. Man is born with the most precious faculties. He possesses a miraculous mind. He wishes to achieve limitless progress by making use of his extraordinary talents. Human life appears to have an eternal character but, within less than a hundred years, while man is still on his life’s journey, some unknown power intervenes and takes him away and sends him to another world.
Why this happens is an extremely serious question. And it certainly needs to be answered. Any man or woman who is serious about his life can never rest content without knowing the answer to this question. It is only the right answer to this question that can give a proper explanation of the present life. Moreover, the answer to these questions will tell us what should be done to make life meaningful and successful in the real sense.
Such questions have been objects of reflection throughout human history. Many great minds have devoted themselves to finding answers to them. The answer which has satisfied the minds at a universal level is that there is a God of this world, He is its Creator, its Lord, sustaining the entire world with His almighty powers; and then that this world has been created under a special creation plan.
According to this plan, man is an eternal creature. But the Creator has divided human life into two parts, a small part of which is placed in the stage of life before death, while the major part of it is placed in the life after death. Death does not mark the end of life, rather the entry into another world so that man may spend the rest of his life in eternal environs.
