Page 29 - The Prophet Abraham (pbuh)
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by their glorification of Allah without ascribing partners to
Him. One of the prophets' main duties was to rescue people
from their misguided belief systems and worldviews, as well as
those practices and values that transgressed the limits set down
by Allah for humanity, and to call their people to the true reli-
gion. One hadith informs us of the following:
Abu Bakrah (ra) relates that: "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, once asked: 'Shall I inform you of a
great sin, one of the greatest sins? ...[It is] to ascribe a partner to
Allah.'" 2
In one verse, Allah reveals that Islam is as easy as the
Prophet Abraham's (pbuh) religion:
... He [Allah] has selected you and not placed any con-
straint upon you in the religion—the religion of your fore-
father Abraham. He named you Muslims before, and also
This locket, from the eighth or ninth century BCE, symbolizes the
Assyrians' idolatrous worship. The main deity of Assyria, the strongest
power in Mesopotamia between 1900 and 612 BCE, was known as Asshur.
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