Moreover, worship as mentioned in most passages of the Quran does not carry this meaning.

Furthermore, His words:

“I desire no provision from them, nor do I desire that they feed Me. Indeed, Allah alone is the Provider, the Possessor of Power, the Firm,”

demonstrate that He created them to worship Him, not to provide sustenance or food. Rather, He is the One who feeds and provides. His feeding and providing for them are part of His governing and directing their affairs, which the proponents of this view have called worship of Him. Thus, the worship for which they were created would consist in their being provided for and governed. This is false.

Moreover, His words, “that they worship Me,” necessarily imply an act that they themselves perform. His nurturing and creating them, however, involve only His action; no action of theirs is involved.

Next to this view in weakness are the claims that they have all worshipped Him, or that the verse has a restricted application. These are weak views, just as the view of the Qadariyyah is weak: they say that whatever acts people performed occurred without His will and power, that He willed nothing but worship, and that anything else occurs without His will and power.

When people delved into predestination, conflicting views concerning it proliferated, along with interpretations of the Quran contrary to its intended meaning. This is among the things that “the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade when he came out to them while they were disputing predestination. One was saying, ‘Has Allah not said such-and-such?’ Another was saying, ‘Has Allah not said such-and-such?’ He said, ‘Is this what you were commanded to do? Or is this what you were called to—to set one part of Allah’s Book against another?’”