The sixth reason is that this description applies only to some disbelievers, yet there is no justification for such a restriction. Those disbelievers who do not engage in worship are more numerous, and those among them who transgress their own religion face a more severe punishment in this world and the Hereafter. Those among them who refrain from what is agreed to be forbidden and fulfill what is agreed to be obligatory will not receive the same punishment as those who invoke another god alongside Allah, take a life Allah has made sacred except with just cause, and commit unlawful sexual intercourse. Thus, if, on this interpretation, unbelief and punishment are more extensive and severe among the excluded category, this restriction would be the very opposite of what is called for.

The seventh reason is that this wording would initially discourage worship and religious devotion. If it were then qualified as referring to the worship of disbelievers and religious innovators—although the wording contains no such qualification—this would amount to an attempt to rectify the wording by supplying something it does not mention.