Wouldn't it be sad if we didn't too have a purpose? If we reflect and look at the world around us, we can easily come to the conclusion that we must have a purpose.
Even simple things like a chair, a bowl and even the book you are holding in your hands serves a purpose. The Quran confirms the uncreatedness of the creator: "He begot no one nor was He begotten." (Quran 112:3) Now, having a creator is one thing, but how do we know we have a purpose? Everything in this universe has a purpose.
If we apply this principle to the universe then we would have to conclude that the cause behind it is uncaused out of rational necessity. For example, imagine if you were told that you couldn’t read this book until you handed it to someone else, and then this other person would also have to give it to someone else, and this went on forever, then would anyone ever read this book? The answer is no. To illustrate this better, if the cause of the universe had a cause and that cause had a cause and so on and so forth forever, then there wouldn’t be a universe to talk about. This cause or creator must itself be uncaused due to the absurdity of a never-ending chain of causes. This is the best explanation not only for our origins but also the universe and everything in it, because it is intuitive and also agrees with reality: whatever begins to exist has a cause or a creator.
This would be like saying that your mother gave birth to herself! Since something cannot come from nothing, and self-creation is absurd, this leaves one final possibility: we have a creator. The first question that the Quran poses to us is: were we created by nothing? Can something really come from nothing? This is impossible, as we know from our own personal experiences of life as well as the laws of the universe that we couldn’t have come out of nothing, because out of nothing, nothing comes! This leads us to the next possibility that the Quran proposes: did we create ourselves? Can something create itself? This is a self-contradiction, because for you to create yourself you would have to already exist, and you can't exist and not exist at same time. There is a profound question that each and every one of us reflects on at some point during our lives: "Why am I here, what is my purpose?" The Quran puts forward a simple but powerful argument with regards to our origins: "Were they created without any agent? Were they the creators?" (Quran 52:35) The Quran engages its audience by inviting us to ponder some rational, logical questions which we can use to arrive at a conclusion about our origins.
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