Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “O mankind, worship your Lord who created you and those before you, that you may be righteous,” and a discussion of the Meccan surahs

The Shaykh : You have done well. I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytan. Allah the Exalted said: The address here is directed to even though the surah is Medinan, and most of those addressed in Medinan surahs are the believers. For this reason, the scholars of the principles of exegesis have made it a sign of Medinan surahs that the address in them is directed to the believers, unlike the Meccan verses, because most of those addressed by them are not believers. However, this verse is the first verse in the surah containing a call; the first verse with a call is this verse: For this reason, the address or call in it is directed to all people, as in the saying of Allah the Exalted: . If someone were to say, “Perhaps this is a Meccan verse that was placed in the Medinan surah?” we would say: The default is that this is not the case. For this reason, we see in some headings that a surah is Meccan except for such-and-such a verse, or Medinan except for such-and-such a verse. This is not established unless it is proven by valid evidence; otherwise, the default is that all the verses of Medinan surahs are Medinan, and all the verses of Meccan surahs are Meccan, unless there is established evidence to the contrary. In this: in this is the affirmation of the oneness of worship and the oneness of lordship. This is the oneness of worship, because the oneness of worship is called the oneness of divinity in relation to its attribution to Allah, and the oneness of worship in relation to its attribution to the servant.