Page 29 - The Prophet Abraham (pbuh)
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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar





               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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