Araf 191-198
191- WILL THEY TAKE FOR PARTNERS WITH ALLAH THOSE WHO DO NOT CREATE ANYTHING, AND THEY ARE THEMSELVES CREATED.
192- THOSE WHO CAN NOT SUPPORT THEM OR SUPPORT THEIR OWN SELVES.
193- AND SHOULD YOU CALL THEM TO GUIDANCE, THEY DO NOT RESPOND, WHETHER YOU CALL THEM OR REMAIN SILENT.
194- THOSE YOU CALL AS GODS INSTEAD OF ALLAH ARE BUT SLAVES LIKE YOU, CALL UPON THEM AND SEE IF THEY WILL RESPOND TO YOU IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL.
195- DO THEY HAVE LEGS TO WALK WITH? OR HANDS TO STRIKE WITH? OR EYES TO SEE WITH? OR EARS TO HEAR WITH? SAY: “CALL UPON THE PARTNERS YOU WORSHIP, AND THEN MAKE YOUR OWN PLOTTING, THEN YOU WILL NOT BE GIVEN ANY REPRIEVE”.
196- MY CLOSE ALLY AND SUPPORTER IS ALLAH WHO SENT THE BOOK DOWN, AND HE IS THE ALLY AND SUPPORTER OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
197- THOSE YOU CALL INSTEAD OF HIM (ALLAH) CAN NOT SUPPORT YOU OR EVEN SUPPORT THEMSELVES.
198- IF YOU CALL THEM TO GUIDANCE, THEY DO NOT LISTEN, AND YOU SEE THEM LOOKING AT YOU, BUT THEY DO NOT SEE.
Allah the Highest is alerting us to the weakness of those we take as partners with Him, giving them the same importance, and obeying them when we should obey Allah, and worshipping them. They might be idles, people or ideas.
Allah the Highest tells us:
- How can we possibly worship them while they cannot create anything. One should differentiate between making and creating. We make things from materials available to us from the primary elements on Earth, and we cannot give them life, or create something from nothing. Allah the Highest said: “O MANKIND, I MADE A PARABLE, LISTEN TO IT * THOSE YOU CALL AS GODS INSTEAD OF ALLAH CANNOT CREATE FLIES, EVEN IF THEY GATHER FOR IT, AND IF THE FLIES TAKE SOMETHING AWAY FROM THEM, THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE IT BACK, WEAK IS HE WHO SEEKS AND WHAT IS BEING SOUGHT”. (S:22 A:73)
It is interesting that Allah the Highest said that we will not be able to take what the flies take from us back. Flies pour their saliva on the food they eat and then they digest it outside their bodies before sucking it in. Therefore, when it is taken into their bodies, it is no longer the original material, for it has been broken down and digested.
- The Idols cannot help themselves or help others, for they do not have a will of their own. The limbs and senses they seem to have do not function. Even the human idols, their senses do not seem to function properly. They do not listen to the guidance of Allah the Highest and do not see His Ayahs and Signs around them.
- Allah the Highest is our Allay, Supporter and Protector, while those Idols cannot even support themselves. Whoever has Allah the Highest for support, does not need others to support him.
Allah’s messenger prayer and prayer upon him used to have people guarding him, then Allah the Highest sent him this Ayah: “O MESSENGER, DELIVER WHAT WAS SENT DOWN TO YOU FROM YOUR LORD, AND IF YOU DO NOT, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE DELIVERED HIS MESSAGE, AND ALLAH PROTECTS YOU FROM PEOPLE”. (S:5 A:67) Following this, he stopped the Muslims guarding him.
It is a great comfort and reassurance for the believers, to know that Allah the Highest is always there as their Great Allay, Supporter and Protector, at all times and particularly at times of trouble and difficulties, and when we feel overpowered.
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