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5095 From the heights of divine Glory, we come back again to this sorry earth, with its base idolatries. We are asked to
"look at this picture, and at that!" The three principal idols of Pagan Arab Idolatry were the goddesses Lat, Uzza, and
Manat. Opinions differ as to their exact forms: one version is that Lat was in human shape, Uzza had its origin in a
sacred tree, and Manat in a white stone. (53.19)
53:20 - And another the third (goddess) Manat?
71:21 - Noah said: "O my Lord! they have disobeyed me but they follow (men) whose wealth and
children give them no Increase but only Loss.
71:23 - "And they have said (to each other) abandon not your gods; abandon neither Wadd nor
Suwa neither Yaguth nor Yauq nor Nasr 5721
5721 For an account of how these Pagan gods and superstitions connected with them originated, and how they became
adopted into the Arabian Pagan Pantheon. (71.23)
21:57 - And by Allah I have a plan for your idols after ye go away and turn your backs"... 2717
2717 He wants to convince them of the powerlessness of their idols. But he does not do it underhand. He tells them that he
is going to do something when once they are gone and their backs are turned to the idols,-as much as to say that the
idols are dependent on their care and attention. Apparently the people are amused and want to see what he does. So
they leave him to his own devices. (21.57)
21:58 - So he broke them to pieces (all) but the biggest of them that they might turn (and address
themselves) to it. 2718
2718 He was enacting a scene, to make the people ashamed of worshipping senseless stocks and stones. He left the
biggest idol untouched and broke the others to pieces, as if a fight had taken place between the idols, and the biggest
had smashed the others. Would they turn to the surviving idol and ask him how it all happened? (21.58)
21:65 - Then were they confounded with shame: (they said) "Thou knowest full well that these
(idols) do not speak!" 2722
2722 Literally, "they were turned down on their heads" which may suggest a metaphorical somersault, i.e., they recovered
from their dawning shame for idolatry and were prepared to argue it out with the youth Abraham. But I think there is
better authority for the interpretation I have adopted. (21.65)
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 6.442 Narrated by
Ibn Abbas
All the idols which were worshipped by the people of Noah were worshipped by the Arabs later on. As for
the idol Wadd, it was worshipped by the tribe of Kalb at Daumat-al-Jandal; Suwa' was the idol of (the tribe
of) Murad and then by Ban, Ghutaif at Al-Jurf near Saba; Yauq was the idol of Hamdan, and Nasr was the
idol of Himyr, the branch of Dhi-al-Kala. The names (of the idols) formerly belonged to some pious men of
the people of Noah, and when they died Satan inspired their people to (prepare) and place idols at the places
where they used to sit, and to call those idols by their names. The people did so, but the idols were not
worshipped till those people (who initiated them) had died and the origin of the idols had become obscure,
whereupon people began worshipping them.
6:74 - Lo! Abraham said to his father Azar: "Takest thou idols for gods? for I see thee and thy
people in manifest error."
Biographies of Companions
Sad ibn Abi Waqqas
……..Rustum thus wanted to impress the Muslim and allure him from his purpose by this show of
opulence and grandeur. Rubiy looked and listened unmoved and then said:
"Listen, O commander! Certainly God has chosen us that through us those of His creation whom He
so desires could be drawn away from the worship of idols to Tawhid (the affirmation of the unity of
God), from the narrow confines of preoccupation with this world to its boundless expanse and from
the tyranny of rulers to justice of Islam……..
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 2.671
Ibn Abbas
Narrated by
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