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The prophets destroyed all idols erected against belief in Allah

History shows that the prophets never turned a blind eye to the idols in their communities. For exam-
ple, the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) smashed the idols to stop his people from worshipping them. Allah re-
veals this as follows in the Qur’an:

He broke them in pieces, except for the biggest one, so that they would have it to consult! They said, ‘Who

has done this to our gods? (Qur’an, 21:58-59)

They said, ‘Did you do this to our gods, Abraham?’ He said, ‘No, this one, the biggest of them, did it. Ask

them if they are able to speak!’ They consulted among themselves and said, ‘It is you yourselves who are
wrongdoers.’ But then they relapsed back into their disbelief: ‘You know full well these idols cannot talk.’
He said, ‘Do you then worship, instead of Allah, what cannot help or harm you in any way? Shame on you
and what you worship besides Allah! Will you not use your intellect?’ (Qur’an, 21:62-67)

As the above verses show, the prophet Abraham (pbuh) did not just shatter the idols. He chose a very
clever way of doing so that would allow the people to realize that their idols had no power. By setting
their consciences in motion, he allowed them to think in a direction that they had perhaps never gone
down before.

In the same way, the Prophet Moses (pbuh) also smashed the idols of his people who again fell under
the influence of their own perverse beliefs at a time when he was away from them. The Prophet Moses
(pbuh) burned the golden calf, the idol of his tribe, and then scattered its ashes into the sea. In this way,

the Prophet Moses (pbuh) made sure that his people would never again be able to worship their idols.
Allah reveals this as follows in the Qur’an:

He [Moses] said, ‘What do you think you were doing, Samaritan?’ He said, ‘I saw what they did not see. So
I gathered up a handful from the Messenger’s footprints and threw it in. That is what my inner self urged

me to do.’ He said, ‘Go! In the world you will have to say, “Untouchable!” And you have an appointment

Life forms that have remained unchanged for
hundreds of millions of years are proof that
living things never evolved. That is why fos-
sils are the evidence that deals the greatest
blow to the theory of evolution.

This jaguar skull fossil dates
back to the Cretaceous Period
and is 87 million years old.

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