Tafsir Mazhari gives a plain and simple explication of this verse: Allah has equipped every jinn and man with the innate capacity to worship | 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 |
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Allah, the Pure and Exalted, knows best | This is the view of Dahhak, Sufyan Thawri and others |
" According to the majority of the scholars, fitrah here refers to the religion of Islam.
18Just as this Tradition tells us that every man is born with the natural capacity for Islam and true faith, but his parents adulterate and destroy that capacity, and put him on to the ways of disbelief, in the same way the phrase 'except that they should worship Me' could mean that every member of jinn and mankind has the natural, inborn capacity to worship | It is obvious that the believers are more or less steadfast to worship |
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[ 2] The purpose of jinn's and man's creation has been restricted to the worship of Allah whereas there are many other underlying reasons and benefits in their creation |
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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