Erasing the Accusation of Shirk

002.028 How disbelieve ye in Allah when ye were dead and He gave life to
you! Then He will give you death, then life again, and then unto Him ye will
return
In this context ‘dead’ means nothing. Allah is describing mankind as
‘nothing’ before he gave them life. In the same manner he is describing the
idols as ‘dead’ as ‘nothing’ Furthermore, in the following verse, Allah
Almighty is calling the non living earth as dead, and then He continues to
say how He has revived it:
036.033 A token unto them is the dead earth. We revive it, and We bring
forth from it grain so that they eat thereof;
Again this is proving that something non living can be called dead, such as
stone or the earth.
Your third point was that what was worshipped will not know when
they will be raised; however we, as humans, know that we will be
raised on the Day of Judgment. On the other hand, idols are not aware
that they will be raised or when they will be raised, but we know that
Allah will raise them on the Final day, as He Most Glorious says in
the Qur’an:
029.025 He said: Ye have chosen only idols instead of Allah. The love
between you is only in the life of the world. Then on the Day of Resurrection
ye will deny each other and curse each other, and your abode will be the
Fire, and ye will have no helpers.
This verse proves that they will be raised, if they are not then how will they
curse one another?
Question
A question may arise as to why will Allah raise the idols on the Day of
Resurrection?
Answer
The reason Allah will raise the idols will be to embarrass them and those
who worshipped them, making them aware that they can neither help one
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