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Surah 23. Al-Muminun, Ayah 115

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أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ عَبَثًا وَأَنَّكُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا تُرْجَعُونَ
Afa h asibtum annam a khalaqn a kum AAabathan waannakum ilayn a l a turjaAAoon a
Did you, then, think that We created you in mere idle play, and that you would not have to return to Us?"67
  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "that you would not be brought back to Us", i.e., for judgment.

Did you think that We had created you without any purpose and that you would never return to Us for accountability?"
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Did you then think that We had created you without purpose, and that you would never be returned to Us?'
  - Mustafa Khattab
Deemed ye then that We had created you for naught, and that ye would not be returned unto Us?
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
"Did ye then think that We had created you in jest and that ye would not be brought back to Us (for account)?" 2950
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Allah's Creation is not without a high serious purpose. It is not vain, or for mere play or sport. As far as man is concerned, the highest issues for him hang on his behaviour in this life. "Life is real, life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal", as Longfellow truly says. We must therefore earnestly search out Allah's Truth, encouraged by the fact that Allah's Truth is also, out of His unbounded mercy, searching us out and trying to reach us.

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