Benefits of the Verse: “O mankind, worship your Lord who created you and those before you, that you may be mindful of Him”

Among the benefits of this verse is, first: the emphasis on worship. This is derived from two aspects. The first aspect is that the command to worship is introduced with a call. The second aspect is that the call is addressed to all people, which indicates that worship is of the utmost importance, and it is indeed so. In fact, people were not created except for the sake of worship . Among the benefits of this noble verse is that the obligation of worship upon us is what reason necessitates in addition to the Shari'ah, based on His saying: . For the Lord is worthy of being worshipped, and none other is to be worshipped. The wonder is that these polytheists who did not obey this command, when hardship strikes them and their means are cut off, to whom do they turn? To Allah , because their innate disposition compels them to do so, and they must. Among the benefits of this noble verse is the affirmation that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is the Creator alone, and that He is the Creator of the first and the last, based on His saying: . Among the benefits of this noble verse is that, according to the method of the Qur'an, when the ruling is mentioned, the operative cause is usually mentioned as well. The ruling is , and the operative cause is His being our Lord and Creator, and the Creator of those before us. Among the benefits of this noble verse is that taqwa (mindfulness of Allah) is a high rank that not everyone attains, except the one who is sincere in worship to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), based on His saying: . Can we derive a warning against religious innovation from this verse? Perhaps we can derive a warning against religious innovation from it, because worship of Allah is not realized except by following the path He prescribed for worship. For it is not possible for us to know how to worship Allah, or how to perform the ablution, except through revelation and the Shari'ah. How do we pray? What informed us that a person stands and recites, then bows, then prostrates? This is the worship required of us, and it is only known after revelation. Accordingly, it can be said that the command to worship necessitates the command to follow. Can the encouragement to seek knowledge be derived from the verse? Yes, how so? Because worship is not possible except with knowledge. For this reason, al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) titled this issue with his saying: “Chapter: Knowledge before speech and action”.