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creation, saying, “Who will give life to bones when they are de-
cayed?” Say “He Who made them in the first place will bring them
back to life. He has total knowledge of each created thing; He Who
produces fire for you from green trees so that you use them to light
your fires.” Does He Who created the heavens and earth not have
the power to create the same again? Yes indeed! He is the Creator,
the All-Knowing. His command when He desires a thing is just to
say to it, “Be!” and it is. Glory be to Him Who has the Dominion of
all things in His Hand. To Him you will be returned. (Surah Ya Sin:
77-83)
Jainism is an atheistic religion that still contains many idolatrous
beliefs originating in Hinduism. Temples of this faith, or its shrines in
people’s homes contain many of the imaginary deities of Hinduism in

the form of idols or pictures. When Jains pay their respects to these
idols they offer them food, flowers and incense. People irrationally
pray to them for a long life, wealth or male children in the hope that
they will help them without ever pondering that these idols cannot
hear them, see them or answer their prayers. Allah describes the situa-
tion of such people who worship stone or wooden idols as follows:

After he left, Moses’s people took the Calf (for worship) made from
their ornaments, a form which made a lowing sound. Did they not
see that it could not speak to them or guide them to any way? They
adopted it and so they were wrongdoers. (Surat al-A‘raf: 148)
Could they not see that it did not reply to them and that it possessed
no power to either harm or benefit them? (Surah Ta Ha: 89)
Do they have legs they can walk with? Do they have hands they can
grasp with? Do they have eyes they can see with? Do they have ears
they can hear with? Say: “Call on your partner-gods and try all your
wiles against me and grant me no reprieve.” (Surat al-A‘raf: 195)

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)