As to the purpose of this world, the answer is ‘God plays’. How can one play solo? There is no one equal to Him. Whom does He play in opposition with? Is there a contradiction then? When there is no one to play with, how does He play? The answer to many of the riddles of life can be found in resolving this contradiction.
Theory of probability and principle of uncertainty have often been found to be touching the question of God. Because, in the absence of any visible adversary in the game, God does seem to be pitted against Uncertainty. Does it mean that Uncertainty is another pole worthy of the stature of God. No, Uncertainty is an entirely different stuff. It refers to non-Existence vis-à-vis Existence. God as an embodiment of Existence is pitted against non-Existence. Can God abolish non-Existence? Well this question is absurd because the answer to both the alternatives is the same. If He can’t, then He leaves non-Existence intact. But if He can, then also that leaves another level of non-Existence. So, instead of raising this question, more logical would be to try to understand the nature of non-Existence and its interactions with Existence.
Existence is the certainty of a thing. Non-Existence therefore immediately relates to uncertainty. There are physical evidences of the principles of uncertainty but most of these uncertainties in our lives are partial. Although Man’s life is surrounded with uncertainties yet there is a strong possibility that at some point of time the uncertainty is disturbed by none other than God. Slightest intervention by mixing a certainty of the size of a sand granule has the potential to disturb the absoluteness of uncertainty and will tilt the balance in favour of one, rather than the other alternative at some point of time, however farthest that point of time may be from the present scene. The possibility of absolute uncertainty in the life of man is therefore reduced largely. This gives rise to the notion of God being Rahman and Rahim. He intervenes in favour of man even at the cost of destroying His own Great Game vis-à-vis the principle of Absolute Uncertainty. This also explains the innumerable situations of misery as it appears to us humans when He does not intervene and keeps playing his Game.
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