Page 53 - The Prophet Abraham (pbuh)

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

As we mentioned earlier, in a grave irrationality the pagan
societies in the Middle East at that time worshipped celestial
bodies, such as the Sun and the Moon, in addition to idols
made by themselves and their ancestors. Therefore, the Prophet
Abraham (pbuh) may have wished to use the question-and-an-

swer method to explain why these supposedly divine objects
were not actually divine. And so he first portrayed the stars as
divine in order to draw his tribe's attention to them, and then
proved, as Allah inspired him, why these could not actually be
deities. Allah reveals the Prophet Abraham's (pbuh) expression
in a verse, "I do not love what sets" (Surat al-An'am: 76) is al-
so an important message aimed at his tribe, for he indirectly ex-

plained that a divine entity was immortal and indestructible.
(Allah knows the truth.) In fact, these are some of our Lord's
names: al-Baqi (He Who continues, the immortal one) and al-
Qa'im (He Who persists).

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