And this “making” that Allah negates with regard to innovations is the very same “making” He affirms for divinely ordained matters in His words, “For each of you We have made a law and a clear way” [al-Māʾidah 48] and in His saying, “For every nation We have appointed a rite that they are to observe” [al-Ḥajj 67]. Thus monasticism is something they invented; Allah never legislated it. Concerning His phrase “and monasticism,” scholars hold two views.

The first view: the word is in the accusative, meaning, “they invented it”—either through an implied verb clarified by the clause that follows, or, as some say, that very verb governs both the implied and the expressed object, as held by the Kufan scholars.