Story of PROPHET: NOAH - NOOH (عليه السلام) Part 3

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PROPHET: NOAH - NOOH (عليه السلام)

PART: 3

How Worshipping WADD Started

It is reported from Abdul-Mutahhir, who said: People mentioned Yazid bin Al-Muhallab near Abu Ja’far (Al-Baqir) while he was in prayer, when he finished his prayer, he said to them: You have mentioned Yazid bin Al-Muhallab; he was killed in a land where idols were first worshipped. Then he mentioned WADD and said: He (WADD) was a pious man, loved by his people. But when he died, they converged around his grave in Babylon and were overwhelmed by grief. When Iblis saw their sorrow caused by his death, he came to them disguised as a man, and said: ‘I have seen your grief on the death of this man; so shall I make a statue like him which could be erected in your place of assembly, thus you may remember him by it? They answered: ‘Yes.’

So he made a statue like him. They erected it up in their assembly, and so they remembered him. When Iblis observed their keenness to remember him, he suggested: ‘Shall I build a statue of him in the homes of everyone of you, so that each of you could remember him in his home?’ They agreed. So, he made a statue like him for every family. Then, they accepted this and began to remember him by it. The generation of their children saw what their father did with it (for their remembrance). However, the children’s children came and they had no idea of how their fathers remembered them and so gradually they took it as a god, worshipping it instead of Allah. So, the first one to be worshipped instead of Allah was WADD, i.e. the idol that they named WADD.

THE IDOL MAKING

The corollary of this point is that every idol was worshipped by a different group of people. And after long ages had passed by, people started making idols of them for themselves, so that their authority could be fully recognized, and so they were worshipped instead of Allah.

THE IDOLS IN CHURCHES - THE WORST OF CREATURES

It is Narrated that when Umm Salamah and Umm Habibah رضي الله عنهم

mentioned to the Prophet ﷺ the church called ‘Maria’, which they had seen in Abyssinia and described to him its beauty and images therein, he ﷺ said: “When a righteous man among them dies, they build a place of worship over his grave. Then they depicted those images therein. They are the worst of all creatures before Allah.”

اَللّٰهُ أَعْلَم

To be Continued…

ان شاء الله ﺗﻌﺎﻟﯽٰ

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