*ISLAM* *The Purpose of Religion* The true purpose of adopting a faith is that one should acquire such certainty concerning God, Who is the fountainhead of salvation, as if one can see Him with one's eyes. The wicked spirit of sin seeks to destroy a man and a person cannot escape the fatal poison of sin till he believes with full certainty in the Perfect and Living God and till he knows for certain that God exists, Who punishes the offender and bestows upon the righteous everlasting joy. [Nasim-e-Da‘wat, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 19, pp. 447] Taken from Essence of Islam, Volume 1, page 3.