The Idolaters Always Give The Same Answers

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Idolatry is the legacy of our forefathers.Explanation of the Proof of Truths.

The polytheists of Makka are quoted in the fourth verse giving the same argument. “When they are told, “Follow what God has sent down” they say, “Nay! We shall follow what we have found our fathers following.” In fact all the arguments of the disbelievers and opponents are like this. When they fail to argue they resort to saying that they follow their predecessors. This blind following is done for the wayward and ignorant and is done unthinkingly but they boast about it while they have no answers for the arguments and proofs presented by the Messenger.

The Qura’n raises a very pertinent question rejecting their weak and foolish arguments, “(Would they do that) even though their fathers did not understand anything nor were they guided?” (1)

Had it been that the ignorant were following the wise then it could have been acceptable but here the ignorant were following the ignorant. One misled person was following another misled one. The following of the Arab polytheists was like a thousand blind people catching the staff of another blind person.

The style of this verse tells us that it is addressed to the polytheists among the Arabs but some scholars have opined that it is about the Jews and cite a tradition in this regard from Ibn Abbas but it still seems far fetched.

The fifth and the last verse too is about the Arab polytheists, “When they are told, “Follow what God has sent down” they say, “Nay! We shall follow what we have found our fathers following.” The Qura’n says, “It is very strange that the polytheists present baseless arguments like following their forefathers against the clear signs and verses of God. They insult the messenger by calling him ‘a person” and instead of saying “our elders” they say, “your elders” to gain the attention of common folks. They plead about them to instigate their animosity and bias against the Holy messenger.

We conclude from this discussion that it is blind following that gives impetus to idolatry. When the messenger objected to their practices they answered as recorded in verse 43of Surah Saba and verse 22 of Surah Zukhruf giving the excuse of following their forefathers. In the days of Moses (Surah Yunus 87), Abraham (Surah Shuara 70-74), HUD (Surah A’raf 70), Saleh (Surah HUD 62) they all answered similarly about following their forefathers.

This excuse of following the forefathers is not limited here, in Surah Zukhruf verse 23 it says that the polytheists in the time of all the apostles who preached monotheism took this stand. They denied the preaching of all apostles and raised their voices in favor of following their forefathers and their ungodly ways.

It is evident that this blind following has not created polytheism but it is the greatest method of transferring idolatry from one generation to another.

 


 

1. This verse has a hidden sentence in it and the verse will actually read as ‘Do these people follow those who never judged anything through intelligence and were not rightly guided?’

 

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