{"id":801,"date":"2022-11-01T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=801"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:31:06","slug":"what-is-the-meaning-and-purpose-of-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"What is the Meaning and Purpose of Human Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Session 26. Despite its unparalleled achievements, modernity also has a dark side. Its rampant materialism not only has created environmental catastrophes, but also a crisis of &#8220;meaning&#8221;.\u00a0 Absurdism and Nihilism, two schools of thought in the 20th-century, plainly speak of how senseless and pointless life is. This modern attitude flies in the face of the spiritual outlook of life in all world religions- an outlook that is summarized in a Quranic verse: &#8220;We are from God, and we shall return to God.&#8221; Thus, &#8220;meaning&#8221; is embedded in every particle of this vast universe; because, the universe has a Creator God, who is &#8220;the meaning of all meanings&#8221;! In this presentation, we will discuss what the Quran teaches on the meaning and higher purpose of human life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1119\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/09-16-2022.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1119','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/09-16-2022.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\/09-16-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=801-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/09-16-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"09-16-2022.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Session 26. Despite its unparalleled achievements, modernity also has a dark side. Its rampant materialism not only has created environmental catastrophes, but also a crisis of &#8220;meaning&#8221;.\u00a0 Absurdism and Nihilism, two schools of thought in the 20th-century, plainly speak of how senseless and pointless life is. This modern attitude flies in the face of the spiritual outlook of life in all world religions- an outlook that is summarized in a Quranic verse: &#8220;We are from God, and we shall return to God.&#8221; Thus, &#8220;meaning&#8221; is embedded in every particle of this vast universe; because, the universe has a Creator God, who is &#8220;the meaning of all meanings&#8221;! In this presentation, we will discuss what the Quran teaches on the meaning and higher purpose of human life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1120\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/09-16-2022.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1120','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/09-16-2022.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\/09-16-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=801-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/09-16-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"09-16-2022.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-801","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\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}