Maeda 76-77
76- SAY: “DO YOU WORSHIP INSTEAD ALLAH, WHAT DOES NOT HAVE POWER TO HURT OR BENEFIT YOU, WHEN ALLAH IS THE ONE WHO HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS”.
77- SAY: “O PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, DO NOT BE EXCESSIVE CONCERNING YOUR RELIGION, AND DO NOT FOLLOW THE DESIRES OF PEOPLE WHO WENT ASTRAY BEFOREHAND, LEAD MANY ASTRAY, AND THEY WENT ASTRAY OF THE STRAIGHT PATH”.
Allah the Highest is advising mankind not to worship whoever has no power to do them hurt or good. This goes for idles, as well as people, including Allah’s prophets and messengers. Even the ability to perform miracles of some prophets and messengers, is not of their own power, but happens by Allah’s power.
Some think that the miracles performed by some prophets particularly things like healing the sick and reviving the dead is evidence of their divine nature (Being gods). Allah the Highest who split the red sea for the Children of Israel to cross, and raised the mountain above them, and made Jesus peace upon him speak when he was infant in the cradle, is also the one who revived the dead and healed the leper. Miracles are performed by Allah the Highest through people, not by people, whoever they may be.
Indeed, all things that happen in the heavens and earth happen through Allah’s power. When we put a seed in the soil, then the rain from heavens waters it, and it grows into a large tree which bears fruit for us to eat, and in the meantime carrying thousands of other seeds like the one which started it in the first place, is this any thing but a miracle. Does any one but God perform this miracle? Indeed not.
Miracles happen in front of us every day, but we do not think about them because we are used to them happening every day.
Therefore, Allah the Highest commands the people of the book not to be excessive in their religion, meaning making excessive claims about their prophets and messengers, in seeing them more than being the human beings that they were.
The Muslims also should be careful not to do the same, and make excessive claims about Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him or any of the righteous people after him. Visiting the shrines of righteous people and asking them for things like healing the sick and the like, is but another form of taking partners besides Allah.
We should be careful not to follow the steps of other people who took their prophets and messengers for being divine themselves, because Allah the Highest performed miracles through them.
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