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er communities who deviated into ascribing equals to Him :
They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords
besides Allah, and also the Messiah, the son of Mary.
Yet they were commanded to worship the Only One
God. There is no deity but Him! Glory be to Him above
anything they associate with Him! (Surat al-Tawba: 31)
Allah reveals in the following verses about this idolatrous
community's general logic and mindset.
In the same way, their idols have made killing their chil-
dren appear good to many of the idolaters in order to
destroy them and confuse them in their religion. If Allah
had willed, they would not have done it; so abandon
them and what they fabricate. They say: "These animals
and crops are sacrosanct. No one may eat them, except
those we wish" – as they allege – and animals on whose
backs it is forbidden to ride, and animals over which
they do not mention Allah's name, inventing a falsehood
against Him. He will repay them for the things they have
invented. They say: "What is in the wombs of these ani-
mals is exclusively for our men and forbidden for our
wives. But if it is stillborn, they can share in it." He will
repay them for their false depiction. He is All-Wise, All-
Knowing. [As for] those who kill their children foolishly
[and] without any knowledge and make what Allah has
provided for them forbidden, inventing lies against
Allah, such people are lost. They are misguided. They
are not guided. (Surat al-An'am: 137-140)
As the above verses show, idolaters have a great ten-
dency to forbid Allah's blessings and what He has made