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make statues too for these will be
much better. Aah! much better
indeed for you to remember
.”
And so the people made statues of
the pious men and women whom
they loved and admired. They still
worshipped Allah but these statues
they treasured.
But as time gradually passed by
and new children were born, they
added even more to the respect
shown to these statues that they
saw. They then began to worship
these statues as idols, as gods
besides Allah, as well as making
gods of the great pious men, those
men who loved only Allah.
They had forgotten what their great
grandfather
Nabi
Adam [a] had
taught. They had forgotten that only
Allah is worthy of worship. And now
they had been led astray, they had
become foolish people, who spent
their time doing every wicked deed.
They had been tricked by
shaytan
