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not hear. You see them looking at you, yet they do not see. (Surat al-
A‘raf: 191-198)

Examining Hinduism reveals a practice full of perverted, pagan,
primitive, irrational and illogical rituals. Hindus spend their entire lives
worshipping their imaginary gods in ignorance. It is possible to see these
idols everywhere in India: in temples, homes, small roadside shanties, in
carved stone images, in advertising, calendars, movie posters, shops,
jewelry, statuettes and house decorations, in short, they are imbedded in
every area of life in Hindu dominated lands.

Allah reveals the situation of such people in the Surah Fatir:
If you call on them they will not hear your call, and were they to hear,
they would not respond to you. On the Day of Resurrection they will
reject your making associates of them. No one can inform you like
One Who is All-aware. (Surah Fatir: 14)
One of the reasons why Hindus claim not to be idolatrous is that
they know that the rest of the world is aware of the nonsensical nature

of their superstitious religion. When they claim that the idols they wor-
ship are in reality not idols but means by which they reach “Brahma” or
the “universal spirit”, they are not aware of the fact that throughout his-
tory, all idolatrous people have made the same claim. As we have al-
ready stated, the deniers by association at the time of our Prophet
Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) claimed too that
they worshipped idols only in order to reach Allah. The reason for this
heretical belief is that the deniers of the ignorant era who ascribed part-

ners to Allah, like the Hindus, blindly and without questioning, fol-
lowed the teachings inherited from their forefathers. Allah reveals in the
Qur’an the inherent bigotry of the Prophet Abraham’s (pbuh) nation in
a conversation between him and them:

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