Will Allah Give Life To Idols?
- philhoraia
- May 19, 2024
- 2 min read
S 16:86 And when those who have associated have seen their partners they said: Our lord, these are our partners whom we used to invoke instead of you. Then they threw the speech to them: You are liars.
From the Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs
(And when those who ascribed partners to Allah behold those partners of theirs) their gods, (they will say: Our Lord!) O our Lord! (these are our partners) our gods (unto whom we used to cry instead of Thee) they commanded us to worship them. (But they will fling to them the saying) i.e. the idols will answer them and say: (Lo! ye verily are liars!) in what you say: we never commanded you to worship us nor were we aware of your worship. https://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=16&tAyahNo=86&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2
Would Allah give life to idols, to false gods? Would those false gods be damned? As Isa and the angels were supposedly invoked, would they be damned?
In the Bible idols are lifeless, mute. But Allah apparently will create living, speaking idols.
Of course, a distinction is made in a number of passages between mushrikun and the People of the Book.
In the verse, although they are supposed to be associating, they're said to have invoked instead of Allah. Where might the association or shirk be?
I was reminded of this verse:
S 37:95-96 He said: Do you worship what you carve / When Allah has created you and what you do?
Does Allah create idols?
The black stone would supposedly be given a tongue.
Ibn Abbas narrated that:
The Messenger of Allah said about the (Black) Stone: "By Allah! Allah will raise it on the Day of Resurrection with two eyes by which it sees and a tongue that it speaks with, testifying to whoever touched it in truth."
Allah creates everything, thus Allah creates idols, thus Allah commits shirk.