Why Religion?

If a Creator exists, why would He care about us or give us religion?

If a Creator designed this universe with such care, would He leave us without purpose, like an abandoned machine?

We humans are not rocks or clouds. We ask:

  • What’s the point of life?

  • Why do I feel guilt or hope?

  • Why do good and evil even matter?

These aren’t scientific questions. You can’t find “good” in a microscope or weigh “truth” on a scale. Yet we all believe in them deeply. Even the staunchest atheist believes that murder is wrong, truth is better than lies, and loyalty matters.

But where did those beliefs come from?

Atoms don’t carry morality. Evolution doesn’t reward altruism that harms survival. And societies disagree on what’s “right.” So what makes anything actually right or wrong?

Morality Without God?

If morality is just brain chemistry or social programming, then:

  • Why did Nazi ethics need judgment?
    If society defines right, then Hitler’s Germany was just another moral system.

  • Why are we angry at injustice?
    There’s no injustice in atoms colliding. Only if there is a higher law can we say something is truly wrong.

“Even the most committed atheist acts as if some things are objectively good or evil. But without religion, such claims are meaningless.”

Religion grounds morality. It says: You were made for a purpose

Religion: The Voice of the Creator

If you were created intentionally, then you were created for something. But how would you know what that is—unless the Creator told you?

Religion is that communication. It’s how we understand:

  • Our duties and responsibilities
  • What’s good and evil
  • What happens after we die

Religion is not a human invention to control people. It is a divine explanation to elevate them. To bring them out of confusion and into clarity.

“So devote yourself to the faith of monotheism—the natural way Allah has instilled in people. There is no change in Allah’s creation. This is the upright religion, but most people do not know.”

[Surat Ar-Rum: 30]

Without Religion

  • Morals become preferences.
  • Purpose becomes survival.
  • Death becomes the end.

No one can live that way honestly. As Sartre (atheist philosopher) admitted, without purpose, man becomes just a “useless passion.” As Stephen Hawking put it, “chemical scum.”

Religion returns your humanity.

“And why should I not worship Him Who originated me, and to Whom you will be returned?”

[Surat Yāsīn: 22]

But with so many religions in the world

How can we know which one is true?
Next: What is the True Religion?