1. What does man want?

2.  The Door to Eternal Paradise  Salvation from Hellfire  Real Happiness and Inner Peace  Forgiveness for All Sins

3.  And give good news (O Muhammad) to those who have faith and do good deeds, that they will have gardens in which rivers flow...) (Q, 2:25)  وَبَشِّرِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أَنَّ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ ۖ

4.  But those who have faith and do good deeds, We will admit them to gardens in which rivers flow, lasting in them for ever.... (Q, 4:57)  وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ سَنُدْخِلُهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا أَبَدًا

5.  Those who have rejected faith and died in faithlessness, the earth full of gold would not be accepted from any of them if one offered it as a ransom. They will have a painful punishment, and they will have no helpers.  Q, 3:91  إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَمَاتُوا وَهُمْ كُفَّارٌ فَلَن يُقْبَلَ مِنْ أَحَدِهِم مِّلْءُ الْأَرْضِ ذَهَبًا وَلَوِ افْتَدَىٰ بِهِ ۗ أُولَـٰئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ وَمَا لَهُم مِّن نَّاصِرِينَ ﴿ 3:91 ﴾

6.  Would God accept a ransom from those who:  denied him  rejected his message  denied his prophets  contented themselves with faithlessness?  The faithless shall not be able to ransom themselves.  No helpers shall they have on the Day of Judgment.

7.  How does man relate to God?  Man is the creature of God.  Man is the receiver of God’s message.  Man relates to God vertically through existence.  Creation is the top-down relation.  Man relates horizontally with God as a receiver.  Communication is the horizontal, i.e. legal, relation.  Man receives God’s message through Messengers.

8.  Truly, in remembering God do hearts find rest.  (Q, 13:28)  أَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللَّـهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوبُ ﴿ 13:28 ﴾  But as for him who shall turn away from remembering Me - his shall be a life of narrow scope and on the Day of Resurrection We shall raise him up blind. ( Q, 20, 124 )  وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَن ذِكْرِي فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعِيشَةً ضَنكًا وَنَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَعْمَىٰ ( 20:124)

9.  Reverting to Islam erases all previous sins.  Embracing Islam removes your previous ill deeds.  الإسلام يجب ما قبله  يمحو الرجوع الى الإسلام ما سبق من ذنب قبله