Some of them exercised their God-given free will correctly and chose to worship Him, but others used their God-given free will incorrectly and deviated from worshipping Him | This is the view of Dahhak, Sufyan Thawri and others |
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Some say that this verse pertains to the believers only, that is, only believing jinn and believing mankind are created for worship and for no other task | Allah, the Pure and Exalted, knows best |
" According to the majority of the scholars, fitrah here refers to the religion of Islam.
1Tafsir Mazhari gives a plain and simple explication of this verse: Allah has equipped every jinn and man with the innate capacity to worship | Some use the capacity rightly and succeed, while others employ it wrongly in sinning and fulfilling their base emotions, and thus destroy it |
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This version supports the view that the verse is only in connection with the believers | Answer to the second question is that bringing any creation into being for the purpose of worship does not necessarily imply that they are unfit for other functions of life |
Scholars have made different approaches to solve these problems.
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