The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The image of the fatwa in God’s creation of the world ]

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Among the divine fatwa are the Qur’anic and Prophetic reports. As for the Qur’an, it says, “And I did not create the jinn and mankind except that they should worship me.” The image of the fatwa here is that He created them to bless them with existence, to bring them out of the evil of nothingness, to enable them to be created by the divine names, and to make of them successors. Gratitude diminishes the blessing on the part of the one who is bestowed upon him, so he concealed that out of preference for them by saying, “And I did not create the jinn and mankind except that I should worship them,” so he showed that he created them for His sake, not for their sake .


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