115 Preface أَفَحَسِبتُم أَنَّما خَلَقناكُم عَبَثًا وَأَنَّكُم إِلَينا لا تُرجَعونَYusuf Ali“Did ye then think that We had created you in jest, and that ye would not be brought back to Us (for account)?”1God’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 God’s Truth, encouraged by the fact that God’s Truth is also, out of His unbounded mercy, searching us out and trying to reach us.