Good Question.
A question which may cross the mind of anyone, is why do we worship God? Why has God made worshipping and obeying Him obligatory upon us, when He is utterly exalted above needing all of our actions? What is the aim in obliging us to worship Him? Does any benefit return to Him from our worshipping Him, or from our piety before Him, or from our submitting to His orders and prohibitions?Or does the benefit return to us? If so, what is the reality of this benefit? Or is the aim simply that God commands and our obligation is to obey Him?
The answer to all of these questions is that God does not benefit from the worship of he who worships Him, nor is God injured by the deviation of he who turns away from the way of God and His obedience, and follows his own wants. There is no impact upon God if we do or do not worship Him.
So why, with this All-Sufficiency, did God the Exalted charge us with His worship and obedience?
If you knew the effect of worship upon you, and the benefit for you in this, you would be certain that you are the sole beneficiary. If your heart could know the taste of worship, and your soul savour its aroma, you would know that you take a joyous blessing that nothing of the life of this world could surpass. Unfortunately there are few in this day and age that do appreciate the effect that their obedience and worship of God has on their hearts and souls! Few who savour the sweetness of intimacy and nearness to God the Exalted!This is because people are busy with the life of this world, and their hearts are filled with the love of this world and its comforts and pleasures!So how can these wonderful meanings and effects - that the pious Believers who came before us knew - find their way to our hearts and souls? Worship is sustenance for your soul! For a human being is not only a body searching for the fruits of the earth. Your reality is that you have been honoured above the rest of the earth by the soul that God the Exalted breathed into your body. This soul finds its life and its purity by Gods deliverance, the Mighty, the Sublime; by the worship of God. For worship is what gives the soul its sustenance and growth.