Is it what you were created for?

There was Ibrahim Ibn-Adham, who was a shallow young man, whose only concern was to have fun.

One day he bumped into an old man who took hold of his horse’s bridle and said with a reproaching tone, “Ibrahim, is that what you were created for, or is it what you were ordered to do?”

The old man’s words found their way to Ibrahim’s heart; from that moment on, he swore to live for the purpose behind his creation, for as Allah says what can be translated as, “And I (Allah) created not the jinn and mankind except that they should worship Me (Alone).” (Surah 51:56).

Ibrahim eventually became known as Ibrahim Ibn-Adham, the master of the followers of Islam.