Here again polytheism, and in particular DUALISM, has been rejected:ِ

      ``Allah has said:ِ Do not take two Gods. Verily He is only one God.''

      The pagan Arabs had various idols, and yet they believed in Allah as the supreme being and Creator of all. They even worshipped pairs of idols, and took them for male and female, like the two idols that they had settled on top of the two famous hills in Mecca which were named after the two idols as, SAFÄ and MARVEH.

      Some of the commentators have understood this verse to have refered to the Dualism doctrine. Some of the ancient Persians held the doctrine that the universe is under the dominion of two opposing principles; a good and an evil, manifested in the light and darkness. This doctrine is contrasted with monism. Trinity, and pluralism. The Arabs of the Pagan Era did believe in Allah as their supreme God, but they also had the intermediary gods, such as their various idols, in order to conduct all their affairs; and even to intercede with Allah on their behalf.

      The great commentator TABARSI, has a fine touch on the above that:ِ ``Your Lord has ordered you not to worship two deities, and yet you have created so many gods for yourself. Your caprice is an idol, and your vain desires another. Your worldly aims and object have also turned to be your gods; and even you prostrate yourself before another man, as poor and week as yourself!''