“And We did not reveal the Book to you except so that you may make clear to them what they differed about, and as guidance and mercy for a people who believe.”
(Qur’an 16:64)
Ibn ʿĀshūr رحمه الله said:
“The Qur’an’s greatest objective is these comprehensive benefits that contain the foundations of all goodness:
uncovering ignorance, guiding to true knowledge, and the result of these two matters — mercy — which arises from avoiding misguidance and following guidance.”
(Tafsīr Ibn ʿĀshūr, 14/196)