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Qur'an Difficulty: Jinn created for worship or for Hell?
I have only created Jinns and men,
that they may serve Me.
-- Sura 51:56
Many are the Jinns and men
We have made for Hell: ....
-- Sura 7:179
It would be no problem to say that all of them were created
to worship and serve God, but because they have free will
and some or many decided to disobey they will be punished
in Hell. But to state that many were made for Hell is
an obvious contradictions to the first statement - or else
we must conclude that they were created in order to serve
Allah in Hell, but this would require a serious shift in
the understanding of the meaning of Hell as well as the
issue of justice in who is sent to hell.
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