The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The jinn, along with humans, were created for worship ]

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And God, in His essence, is Self-sufficient of the worlds. Rather, God Almighty has made us know that He is Self-sufficient of the worlds in order to teach us that He, Glory be to Him, did not create us except for us, not for Himself, and He did not create us to worship Him except so that the reward and grace of that work would return to us. Therefore, He did not single out this speech except the Thaqalayn, and He Almighty said, “And I did not create the jinn and mankind.” Except that they should worship, and we do not doubt that everything He created of the angels and others of the world, He created them only to glorify His praise, and He did not single out this attribute other than the heavy ones. I mean the attribute of worship, which is humility. So He did not create them when He created them, since no. Rather, He created them to be humiliated, and He created everything other than them, since it is not in the origin of their creation, so He did not place the reason in it. Exce


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