I often find myself returning to one deeply intuitive question: why did God create me? What is my life purpose? Because when I reflect on it, I realize that whether I worship Him or not, it does not increase or decrease His power, He is already complete. So if my existence does not fulfill any need of God, then what is its purpose? This question is not just philosophical; it is personal. It pushes me to search for a meaning beyond obligation, a purpose that defines who I am and what I am meant to become.
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- Life Purpose: God Wanted to Reveal Himself Through Us
Life Purpose: God Wanted to Reveal Himself Through Us
The real question is not simply why God created us, but what our life purpose truly is, what we are here to become. God, in His ultimate essence, is beyond our perception, unseen, limitless, and impossible for the human mind to fully grasp. Yet He has not left us in distance. Through what is known as al-ulūhiyya, we come to understand Him in a way that touches our lives. Al-ulūhiyya1 refers to the aspect of God that relates to creation, His names and attributes that we can recognize and experience: the Most Merciful, the Most Loving, the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, the One who forgives endlessly. These are not just theological ideas; they are living qualities that shape our world and gently guide us toward our life purpose.
We are loci of the manifestations of al-ulūhiyya
Perhaps, then, the human being is not merely a creation, but a locus, a living point where these divine attributes are meant to appear. Not in their perfection, for that belongs only to God, but in a human, fragile, and sincere way. When you show mercy, you become a locus of His mercy. When you forgive, you become a locus of His forgiveness. When you choose love when it is hardest, you become a locus of something divine. Life, then, becomes deeply emotional and sacred: your existence is not random, and your actions are not insignificant, they are reflections of something infinite, leading you closer to your life purpose.
My Purpose and Sachal Sarmast, He came to Know Himself
This idea echoes beautifully in the mystical tradition, like in the poem “He Came to Know Himself” by Sachal Sarmast, where the journey of creation is seen as a movement of Divine self-recognition through human awareness:
He came to know Himself
Naught else had He in view
To be able to realize this
He got enmeshed in love
He alighted from high heaven
To pour a cascade of love
Became Mansur to mount the gallows
Just to have His head cut off.
He treaded the bazaars of Egypt
Just to be sold for a slave
Sachu speaks the bare Truth
To speak of His sojourn on earth.
Life Purpose and the Hidden Reality of God
According to Sachal Sarmast, whose real name was Abdul Wahab Farouqi2, God is like a hidden gem, a reality so profound and unseen that nothing in creation can fully contain it. In the beginning, there was only emptiness. And in that emptiness, God longed to reveal Himself, to show what He truly is. But how could the invisible, infinite, and eternal manifest?
The answer, according to Sachal, was humanity. Through men and women, the hidden reality of God began to shine. Every act of love, every moment of mercy, every whisper of kindness became a reflection of the Divine. Humans were not just observers, they became living mirrors, carrying glimpses of the unseen into the world.
You are not accidental
And this is where the heart begins to tremble with meaning. You are not here by accident. You are here to carry something of the Divine into a world that often forgets it—to soften what is hard, to heal what is broken, to illuminate what is dark. Every act of kindness, every moment of patience, every quiet forgiveness becomes a sign that God is not distant, but present—through you.
As Allama Iqbal so powerfully wrote:
خودی کو کر بلند اتنا کہ ہر تقدیر سے پہلے
خدا بندے سے خود پوچھے، بتا تیری رضا کیا ہے
Raise yourself to such heights of inner being that before every destiny is written,
God Himself asks you: tell Me, what is it that you desire.
In this light, your life is not just a search for meaning—you are meant to become meaning itself, a living locus where the Divine quietly reveals its beauty, and where your life purpose finally comes alive.
- In simple terms, al-ulūhiyya means: Who God is for us—how we know Him, relate to Him, and turn to Him. ↩︎
- Abdul Wahab Farouqi, better known as Sachal Sarmast, was an 18th-century Sindhi Sufi poet and thinker from Daraza, Sindh. He spent his life searching for the truth about God, love, and the meaning of life, sharing his thoughts through poetry that touches the heart.
People called him “Sachal Sarmast” because “Sachal” means truthful, and “Sarmast” means intoxicated with love. He was known for being completely honest in his spiritual journey and for living so fully in divine love that his life and words felt like a reflection of God’s hidden reality. ↩︎