Erasing the Accusation of Shirk

tells us that those who worshipped besides Allah were glad when
Allah’s name was mentioned along with another. Do you think they
would be glad if Allah’s name was mentioned with a pious person’s or
that of their idol’s?
THE POLYTHEIST’S CONCEPT OF INTERCESSION
The polytheists had a completely different idea of intercession to that which
we have, as they did not believe in the Hereafter as Allah Almighty says in
the Qur’an:
036.078 And he hath coined for Us a similitude, and hath forgotten the fact
of his creation, saying: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted
away ?
036.079 Say: He will revive them Who produced them at the first, for He is
Knower of every creation,
The polytheists believed that their idols would intercede for them in worldly
matters. They believed that with the intercession of their idols they would
defeat and destroy Islam. Allah refuted their idea by explaining how in
actual fact the pious will intercede for the Muslims on the Day of Judgment.
THE PIOUS WILL INTERCEDE
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
019.087 They will have no power of intercession, save him who hath made a
covenant with his Lord.
021.028 He knoweth what is before them and what is behind them, and they
cannot intercede except for him whom He accepteth, and they quake for awe
of Him.
020.109 On that day no intercession availeth save (that of) him unto whom
the Beneficent hath given leave and whose word He accepteth.
034.023 No intercession availeth with Him save for him whom He
permitteth. Yet, when fear is banished from their hearts, they say: What was
it that your Lord said ? They say: The Truth. And He is the Sublime, the
Great.
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