Who deserves to be Worshiped ?

• You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve. (Matthew
4:10)
• In the Bible, the true God emphatically testifies:
I am the LORD, and there is no other. I did not speak in secret, in a land
of darkness… I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right. (Isaiah
45:18-19)
Thus, the essence of the message of Jesus was that only Allah deserves to be
worshipped; the worship of anyone or anything besides Allah or along with Him is
false. It is important to note that worshipping others besides God is a major
alteration of Jesus’ message because it was never reported in the Bible that Jesus
(pbuh) wanted anyone to worship him either directly or indirectly through idols such
as a statue of him or a cross.
After Jesus departed, the call to monotheism became distorted by later followers,
beginning with Paul, who turned that pure and simple message into a complicated
Trinitarian philosophy which justified the worship of Jesus, followed by what some
consider to be worship of Jesus’ mother, Mary, the angels and the saints. Catholics
have a long list of saints to whom they turn in times of need.
Worshipping others besides Allah is irrational and in vain because neither the
living nor the dead can answer the prayers (supplications) of humankind. The
worship of Allah should not be shared with His creation, because they are people
just like us; they are not the creators. They are weak creatures like us; they need
food, drink, shelter and help, and after their death (or ascension, in the case of
Jesus), they cannot even hear the ones who call them!
Islam revived the doctrine of monotheism. For example, Allah has mentioned in
the Quran:
{They have certainly disbelieved who say: Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary,
while the Messiah has said: O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your
Lord. Indeed, he who associates others with Allah—Allah has forbidden him
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