Page 25 - Communication and Argument in the Qur'an

EXPLAINING IDOLATORY AND

MONOTHEISM

Your God is One God. There is no deity
but Him, the All-Merciful, the Most
Merciful. (Surat al-Baqara: 163)

Most people believe in Allah. However what deviates
them from the path of Allah is their putting other deities
before Him. The Qur’an calls this idolatry, and someone
who does this is called an idolater. The essence of Islam is
monotheistic, namely, humanity must serve only the one
true God, Allah.
It is interesting that nearly everyone who puts other dei-
ties before Allah does not believe that they are idolaters.
On the contrary, they offer many excuses as to how they
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t that they may bring us nearer to Allah…” (Surat az-Zumar:
3). The Qur’an tells us about this and other ways by which
the idolaters try to deny that they are associating Allah with
His creatures:
On the Day that We gather them all together, We will
ask those who associated others with Allah: “Where
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