Erasing the Accusation of Shirk

for a second time, whereupon Khalid bin Walid went back for a second time
and broke the idol into three pieces. He returned to the Prophet, but again,
the prophet was dissatisfied and told Khalid bin Walid to go for a third time,
and destroy the idol, whereupon Khalid bin Walid did as he was told and for
a final time went to Uzza and smashed it into small pieces, until a black
woman with long black hair emerged from the broken pieces. Khalid bin
Walid immediately reached for his sword and recited the kalima then killed
the woman. He then returned to the Prophet and explained what had
happened. The blessed Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace)
then said “Indeed this was Uzza, whom the polytheists would worship and
after today she will never be worshipped again”.
Another Incident
Another example of how people would worship stone once they had seen an
amazing occurrence is when a man called ‘Simiri’ created a calf made of
gold. Sayyidnia Jibril (peace be upon him) had descended from the heavens
and his foot had touched the mud on the ground. Coincidently, Simiri threw
that very mud over his calf and his calf became alive and began talking to
the people. This was the nation of Musa ( peace be upon him), a nation of
approximately six million people. This is precisely the reason why people
have worshipped idols: they usually displayed some sort of miracle that
would convince the people that it possessed divine powers or was a god! As
Allah tells us in the Qur’an about Simiri and the nation of Musa (peace be
upon him):
020.087 They said: We broke not tryst with thee of our own will, but we were
laden with burdens of ornaments of the folk, then cast them (in the fire), for
thus As-Samiri proposed.
020.088 Then he produced for them a calf, of saffron hue, which gave forth
a lowing sound. And they cried: This is your god and the god of Moses, but
he hath forgotten.
020.089 See they not, then, that it returneth no saying unto them and
possesseth for them neither hurt nor use ?
020.095 (Moses) said: And what hast thou to say, O Samiri ?
020.096 He said: I perceived what they perceive not, so I seized a handful
from the footsteps of the messenger, and then threw it in. Thus my soul
commended to me
103