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into One God? That is truly astonishing!" Their leaders
went off saying: "Carry on as you are! Hold fast to your
deities. This is clearly something planned. We have not
heard of this in the old (ancestral) religion. This is mere-
ly something contrived." (Surah Sad: 4-7)
Our Prophet's (May Allah bless him and grant him peace)
declaration that Allah is the Only God and that all other sup-
posed deities had no true power totally confounded the per-
verse mentality of the idolaters. Due to their blindness, they
could not understand that all of these false deities pos-
sessed no real power. In fact, it is Allah Who bestows His
grace upon Whom He wills. Allah reveals this truth in the
Surah Quraysh:
… in acknowledgment of the established tradition of
Quraysh, their tradition of the winter and summer cara-
vans: so let them worship the Lord of this House Who
has preserved them from hunger and secured them
from fear. (Surah Quraysh: 1-4)
People living today make this same mistake. How, they
may ask, can they live after abandoning all of the concepts
and people they have regarded as deities and serve only
Allah? The answer is: they must realize that only Allah pos-
sesses the power to create them, to cause them to contin-
ue living, has mercy upon them, and protects and watches
over them. Their employer does not enable them to eat by
paying their salary; rather, this is accomplished by Allah,
Who created their employer with his or her own destiny and
causes him or her to pay those wages. Events neither take
place haphazardly and by coincidence; nor occur through