{"id":796,"date":"2022-10-14T15:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=796"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:19:52","slug":"why-did-god-create-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Why Did God Create Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Session 25. Religious people often ask: why did God create us? What was His purpose? There is an unspoken assumption built into this question; namely, God has a purpose in His acts. After all, we (humans) certainly have a purpose in whatever we do \/ create. So, it seems odd that a super-intelligent God, the Creator of the Universe, would not follow the same pattern. Muslim philosophers and mystics have questioned the validity of this assumption.\u00a0 They argue that common people have a human-like perception of God&#8217;s creative act. Thinking and purpose applies to humans, but not to God. In this presentation, we will explore the Muslim philosophers&#8217; \/ mystics&#8217; critique of the common perception of why God created the universe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_222\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-19-2022.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('222','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-19-2022.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-19-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=796-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-19-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"08-19-2022.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Session 25. Religious people often ask: why did God create us? What was His purpose? There is an unspoken assumption built into this question; namely, God has a purpose in His acts. After all, we (humans) certainly have a purpose in whatever we do \/ create. So, it seems odd that a super-intelligent God, the Creator of the Universe, would not follow the same pattern. Muslim philosophers and mystics have questioned the validity of this assumption.\u00a0 They argue that common people have a human-like perception of God&#8217;s creative act. Thinking and purpose applies to humans, but not to God. In this presentation, we will explore the Muslim philosophers&#8217; \/ mystics&#8217; critique of the common perception of why God created the universe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_223\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-19-2022.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('223','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-19-2022.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-19-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=796-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/08-19-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"08-19-2022.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectures","category-quran-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}