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Originally Posted by Al-Zaara  Oh my -Qatada-, you gave me much to read and I have to go! But I promise, inshaAllah, I'll read this as soon as I return!
Selam aleykum,
Secondly, you mean polytheism and worship of idols? When they asked stones and trees etc to grant them favours? Can you please wait until I read what brother -Qatada- has provided until you and I can discuss? JazakAllahu khairun both of you. =)
Selam aleykum wa rahmetallahu! |
Sorry to give too much info, but just to clear up that misconception - the 'Arabs believed they were upon the religion of Prophet Ibrahim. This is why they did the Hajj rites, circumbulated the Ka'bah, they sacrificed animals, they even had idols of Prophet Ibrahim, this is seen through the time when the Prophet sal Allahu alayhi waSalam broke the idols during the opening of Makkah.
But what we see from there is that these 'arabs actually believed they were on the true religion of Prophet Ibrahim, but due to their ignorance of the true teachings, and due to them innovating extra things in the religion - they fell astray and started associating partners with Allah in the end.
Look at what Ibn Abbas, the cousin of the Prophet said:
Sahih Al Bukhari Volume 6, Book 60, Number 442: Narrated Ibn Abbas:
All the idols which were worshipped by the people of Noah were worshipped by the Arabs later on. As for the idol Wadd, it was worshipped by the tribe of Kalb at Daumat-al-Jandal; Suwa' was the idol of (the tribe of) Murad and then by Ban, Ghutaif at Al-Jurf near Saba; Yauq was the idol of Hamdan, and Nasr was the idol of Himyr, the branch of Dhi-al-Kala.'
The names (of the idols) formerly belonged to some pious men of the people of Noah, and when they died Satan inspired their people to (prepare and place idols at the places where they used to sit, and to call those idols by their names. The people did so, but the idols were not worshipped till those people (who initiated them) had died and the origin of the idols had become obscure, whereupon people began worshipping them.
So we see that these idols which the people worshiped were actually the graves of pious people! Then they gradually got transformed into idols. How do we know? It may be that if we don't stop people from praying to the passed away pious people today, people in the future - when ignorance prevails - will start taking these graves and transforming them into idols and forming a totally new religion? Like the people before us did?
In Islam, it is our duty to stop a greater evil from taking place. And as me and bro 'Ubaydullah have seen, by going to Pakistan and India, ignorant people actually prostrate to these graves of the pious people... that might just be one of the reasons why we're so against it.
And Allah knows best.