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3895 False or imaginary objects of worship serve no purpose whatever. They cannot hear; if they could hear, they could not
grant prayers or petitions. In fact, if they are real creatures, such as angels or deified human beings, they will very
rightly repudiate any such worship as brings them into competition or "partnership" with Allah. See next note. (35.14)
3896 Cf. x. 28 and n. 1418; also xxxiv. 40-41. No false ideas or false impressions will remain when true values are restored.
Why not then accept the Truth now in this life, and get on to the true path of Grace? (35.14)
3897 None can tell you the Truth better than He Who is All-Wise and All-knowing. Why not accept His Message and receive
His guidance? (35.14)
39:3 - Is it not to Allah that sincere devotion is due? But those who take for protectors other than
Allah (say): "We only serve them in order that they may bring us nearer to Allah." Truly Allah
will judge between them in that wherein they differ. But Allah guides not such as are false and
ungrateful. 424342444245
4243 In the many Signs in Creation as described below, there yet is a clear indication of the unity of Plan, pointing to the
Unity of the Creator. Worship or service is due to none but Him. And He wants exclusive and sincere devotion. (39.3)
4244 Worshippers of Idols or of deities other than Allah, e.g., saints or perhaps Wealth and Power, Science or Selfish
Desire, may pretend that these are symbols that may get them nearer to their self-development, nearer to the goal of
their life, nearer to Allah, but they are altogether on the wrong track. (39.3)
4245 This departure of theirs from true worship, this divergence from the right way, produces endless disputations and
sects. Allah will judge between them. But if they are determined to go after falsehoods and forget the gratitude and
service which they owe to Allah, and Allah alone, they are putting themselves on a Path where they will get no
guidance. They are cutting themselves off from revealed Truth. (39.3)
39:64 - Say: "Is it someone other than Allah that ye order me to worship O ye ignorant ones?" 4337
4337 "Order me": there is great irony here. The Prophet of Allah turns to his critics and says: "You arrogate to yourselves
the right to order me how to worship! But who are you? You are only ignorant men! My commission is from Allah. It is
the same as came to Prophets of Allah before me in all ages, viz., (1) that the only Truth is in the Gospel of Unity; and
(2) that if you worship other things and turn away from Allah, your life will be wasted and all your probation will have
been of no account." (39.64)
39:66 - Nay but worship Allah and be of those who give thanks. 4340
4340 To "give thanks" is to show by our conduct that we esteem the gifts of Allah and will use them in His service. (39.66)
42:9 - What! Have they taken (for worship) protectors besides Him? But it is Allah He is the
Protector and it is He Who gives life to the dead: it is He Who has power over all things. 4537
4537 There can be no greater ingratitude or blasphemy than to worship false gods, or to seek protection from things that
have no power, when Allah-Who has power over all things-is always seeking to protect and cherish His creatures, and
placing in their way all the means for attaining the best in them. (42.9)
31:13 - Behold Luqman said to his son by way of instruction: "O my son! Join not in worship
(others) with Allah: for false worship is indeed the highest wrong-doing." 3595
3595 Luqman is held up as a pattern of wisdom, because he realized the best in a wise life in this world, as based upon the
highest Hope in the inner life. To him, as in Islam, true human wisdom is also divine wisdom: the two cannot be
separated. The beginning of all wisdom, therefore, is conformity with the Will of Allah (xxxi. 12). That means that we
must understand our relations to Him and worship Him aright (xxxi. 13). Then we must be good to mankind, beginning
with our own parents (xxxi. 14). For the two duties are not diverse, but one. Where they appear to conflict, there is
something wrong with the human will (see n. 3597). (31.13)
5:76 - Say: Will ye worship besides Allah something which hath no power either to harm or benefit
you? But Allah He it is that heareth and knoweth all things."
7:206 - Those who are near to thy Lord disdain not to do Him worship: They celebrate His praises
and bow down before Him. 11761177
1176 The higher you are in spiritual attainment, the more is your desire and your opportunity to serve and worship your Lord
and Cherisher and the Lord and Cherisher of all the worlds: and the greater is your pride in that service and that
worship. (7.206)
1177 At this stage a Sajda or prostration is indicated, as a sign of our humble acceptance of the privilege of serving and
worshipping Allah,-a fitting close to Sura in which we are led, through a contemplation of the stories of the
Messengers of Allah, to the meaning of revelation and its relation to our moral and spiritual progress. (7.206)
13:16 - Say: "Who is the Lord and Sustainer of the heavens and the earth?" Say: "It is Allah." Say:
"Do ye then take (for worship) protectors other than Him such as have no power either for
good or for harm to themselves?" Say: "Are the blind equal with those who see? Or the depths
of darkness equal with Light?" Or do they assign to Allah partners who have created
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