I will give the Islamic perspective of this life so that you know what's going on. <br><br>Life is almost a game but game is something for entertainment , so a more accurate term is we call life a challenge . <br><br>the rules of the challange are put by god , who is the first so there is nothing before him , so we can't say who created god because he is the creater of everything and nothing before him . <br><br>Rules are govening everything of this challange including the physical rules of the universe. and the social rules as sent by the messengers of god so that you don't deny that you were living this challange or what this challenge is all about. <br><br>To win this challange you have to do the following:<br>1- believe in the creater of you and everything around you<br>2- believe and abide by the rules of God as sent with his messengers, and since Islam is the final message of God then you have to follow the rules of Islam , so when you die and get judged by the creater , you can't say I didn't know what the rules were.<br>3- God has put in us the initial knowledge to go through this challenge . like reasoning.<br>3- you need to follow Islam in your life , and this is how you will be evaluated. so either you follow the straight path or you will follow your desires and get a stray.<br>4- Everything in this life is part of the challange.<br>5- the minimum to pass this challenge is to believe in Allah as God the creater and the only God and believe in the Last messenger sent by God to us (prophet Mohammed) and abide by the rules sent with him<br>2- to get to the higher ranks of this challange then you need to abide with good as much as possible and leave evil and what's bad behind , also you need to stand against evil and be Just. <br><br>In Islam, after life is the real life, so everything in this mortal life is temporary and will end by your death or if you witness the end of the challange and die with rest of humanity at that time. <br><br>When God ends the challange everybody will be brought back to life and judged accordingly , so you either go to hell or heaven and we don't know what role we will play in the real life (after life) as it's not known to us while we are in this challange, but this challange was put to filter us based on our performance. <br><br>without having this perspective in mind you will be lost since athiests are trying to tell that there is no creater or engineer for this world and it just happened on its own , which is nonsesne.