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 THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yawm Ath-thalaatha. 25th day of Rajab, 1445AH (Tuesday, 6th February 2024). MEANING OF TEST AND TRIALS FROM ALLAAH continues. BismilLah.


Let's continue with our reminder yesterday. ALLAAH Says:

“*_And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship ME_*” [Qur’an 51:56]:

What does this verse mean, “except to worship ME?”: it broadly means so that I may enjoin on them that they should worship ME and I will test them; that is, I will test them with religious duties, then I will repay them for their deeds: if their deeds are good, then the outcome will be good, and if their deeds are evil, then the outcome will be bad. This is a choice ALLAH had offered us, and HE already knows who will choose to obey or not and wrote it down in advance. To ALLAH, our lifestyle is like a review of a football match that has already been played and been recorded.


The only reason why some scholars say that this is what the verse means is because this is indicated by many clear verses in the Book of ALLAH. ALLAH clearly stated in several verses of HIS Book that HE created us in order to test us as to which of us is best in deed, and that HE will repay us for our deeds.

ALLAH, may HE be exalted, says at the beginning of Soorat al-Kahf. 

“Indeed, ALLAH have made that which is on the earth adornment for it that HE may test them [as to] which of them is best in deed”[al-Kahf 18:7].


These verses clearly state that the wisdom behind HIS creation of mankind is to test them as to which of them is best in deed, and this explains the word “except to worship ME ” [adh-Dhaariyaat 51:56], because the best thing to explain the Qur’an is the Qur’an. Now that we know we are here to be tested and tried, can we afford to be complacent about our religious duties?


May ALLAH grant us the understanding of the Qur'an and aid us to apply its teachings in our ways of life. Aameen.

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