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Unless God wills it, no one can

guide another to the right path.
Again, it is God Who guides people
toward truth and beauty.
Invitations and communications in-
fluence the human heart only inso-
far as God wills it. Indeed, He is the

only absolute power that must be
magnified, adored and entreated for
help. As God announced this truth
in the Qur'an (22: 74): "They do not
measure God according to His true
power. God is All-Strong,
Almighty."

The Qur'an gives a number of
examples of people who worship
idols. As just one example, the poly-
theist people of Abraham carved
representations of their gods, wor-
shipped them, and listened to their

calls. In the Qur'an (21: 52-53), our
Lord relates: "When he [Abraham]
said to his father and his people,
'What are these statues you are
clinging to?' they said, 'We found
our fathers worshipping them.' "
As these verses show, human
beings have adopted this kind of

worship as an inheritance that their
ancestors have passed down to

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