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I only created jinn and man to worship Me.
(Qur'an, 51:56)

In the life of this world, Allah created man for a single purpose:
to serve Him by living by His precepts. For those who wish to be
a servant to Him, He sent down the Qur'an as a book of guidance:
It (the Qur'an) is a Book We have sent down to you, full of
blessing, so let people of intelligence ponder its Signs and
take heed. (Qur'an, 38:29)
The Qur'an is not a book that consists solely of lawful and
unlawful deeds; it covers a wide range of subjects, including
descriptions pertaining to moral perfection, various characteristics
of human beings, all situations and circumstances that are likely
to occur in this life, information related to the life of this world
and the hereafter, fear of God, love for Him, the ways to attain the
good pleasure of God, etc. In brief, the Qur'an is a book that
consists of all the information that man may need throughout his

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