🌼Thus, He precedes the goal
Perhaps the question itself is flawed, but I would be grateful if you would explain:
Is the purpose of creation a creational purpose, a legislative one, or something outside these two categories?
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🌷🔅بسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ 🔅🌷
🔆Peace be upon you
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🌸🔅If we take “purpose” to mean any of the following—aim, target, mark, sign, end, object, intention, destination, objective, aim, ideal, principle, desire or guiding vision—it does not apply to the Exalted Lord. A purpose is something sought by one who does not know the beginning or the end; yet all things’ beginnings and ends are clear to the Exalted Lord. The unseen and the manifest are the same to Allah. A purpose is needed to find one’s way through a plan that has been drawn up.
🔅🌸Purpose has meaning only for beings endowed with free will, because they enter the contest of their appointed task. In fact, choice and free will assign them duties that must lead to a destination, even though the outcome of their actions is already known and manifest to the All-Knowing Lord.
🌸🔅In other words, for the All-Knowing Lord, every part and the whole of creation have their destination. Indeed, for the All-Wise, beginning and end coincide. Waiting has no meaning for Allah; time is created by, and subject to, Almighty God. He is sovereign over time and place, and His power and knowledge encompass them both.
🔅🌸All that exists, and all that will come to be, is in truth a manifestation of divine knowledge. Creation comes about through God’s creative act; so too do the events of creation and the journey of beings endowed with free will. In other words, legislation is brought about through Allah’s creative act. Everything that comes to pass is the fulfilment of the divine will. The free will of created beings is also by the divine will: when Allah wills that a creature be endowed with free will, that creature cannot transgress or escape the bounds of that will.
🌸🔅Humankind and jinn were created to worship the Exalted Lord. In truth, within the realms of their human and jinn nature, humankind and jinn chose a distinctive form of servitude, and the fulfilment of this purpose of servitude defines the aim of their creation. At every stage—of time, place and spiritual journey—God, Mighty and Majestic, must decree how their choices are to be fulfilled.
☘️Thus, among creatures endowed with free will, purpose is realised through Allah’s legislation. And this legislation takes effect, within the realm of free will, through God’s creative act.
Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat), [07.02.23 20:48]