{"id":28,"date":"2010-11-22T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T08:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.wordpress.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:19:43","slug":"acquiring-deen-in-totality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"The Object of man&#8217;s existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Object of man\u2019s existence on earth is to recognize, worship and serve his creator, Allah Ta\u2019ala. Everything else is secondary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Worship of Allah Ta\u2019ala is not restricted to the five pillars (Imaan, Salaah, Zakaah, Fasting and Haj). Instead it encompasses every facet of life from eating to answering the call of nature, from business to marriage and from being the head of the household to being the leader of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to teach man how to worship Allah Ta\u2019ala in every aspect of life, by performing every action in a manner that is pleasing to him, Allah Ta\u2019ala sent messengers and revealed his books of guidance. The last and final messenger was Sayyidana Rasulullah <em>(Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)<\/em> and the last book that was revealed upon him was the Qur\u2019an. Gaining salvation in this world and the next is now only possible by following the Qur\u2019an and the noble Sunnah of Rasulullah <em>(Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Object of man\u2019s existence on earth is to recognize, worship and serve his creator, Allah Ta\u2019ala. Everything else is secondary. Worship of Allah Ta\u2019ala is not restricted to the five pillars (Imaan, Salaah, Zakaah, Fasting and Haj). Instead it encompasses every facet of life from eating to answering the call of nature, from business &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[768,861],"tags":[7,21],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-aqaaid","category-salafism","tag-quran","tag-sunnah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}