Polytheism among Muslims
Qur’aanic Verse 16.56:
Transliteration:
56. WayajAAaloona lima la yaAAlamoona naseeban mimma razaqnahum taAllahi latus-alunna AAamma kuntum taftaroona
Translation:
56. And they set apart a portion of what We have given them for that which they do not know9. By Allah, you shall most certainly be questioned about that which you have been concocting!
Study Note:
9. It is a practice among polytheists to offer some material things for their deities, other than Allah, whom they worship. These deities are either fictitious things or statues of persons, dead or living. The worshippers have no invontrovertible evidences of any divine powers that are reportedly attributed to these deities. Their belief in them is based on just hearsays. The Muslims too have unfortunately fallen a prey to this shirk. They go to the graves of saints, with costly chaddars and hefty monetary donations, thinking that the saints exercise divine powers through their graves. Their thoughts and actions are utterly un-islamic, and yet they call themselves Muslims!
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The above is extracted from yet-to-be-published Qur’aanic Studies - Volume XXVIII. It will be published, in due course, inshaAllah on the website INVITATION TO SALVATION, in continuation of Volumes I to XXVII already published and freely available thereon.
Mohammad Shafi
Author of ‘ISLAM & INTEREST‘