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The Last word about the causes of polytheismSatanic temptations and Egoistic desires

Polytheism and idolatry have always been the weapons of the tyrants and this was for the following reasons:

Firstly the ignorance of the common man will make them subservient as instrument to the evil forces. This is why created tales are always spreading amongst the ignorant. These concocters and colonizers always try to keep the doors of knowledge shut on the ignorant and the naïve, no outlet should be open to them to probe and to research. They should always stay in the abyss of blind following. As the Qura’n says in verse 54 of Surah Zukhruf “Thus the Pharaoh befooled and misled his people and they obeyed him. Verily they were a very rebellious people.” He made their mental standard so low that they blindly followed him.

The base of idolatry is false whims and baseless ideas and this is a great weapon with which to fool the commoner and thus idolatry is a very useful weapon in the hands of the tyrant.

Secondly Polytheism spreads disunity and chaos amongst the people and it always instigates mankind to worship something.

Some people worship the sun, some the stars and some Habal, Lath, and Uzza so much so that a small of Arabs was divided into many sections because of worshipping different gods but Tawhid is such a joining factor that has joined the hearts and has unified their thoughts bestowing the grace of unanimity and conformity.

We should remember so long as the strife and conflict rule till that time tyranny will be pleased in its heart because, divide and rule is the policy of the tyrants and the colonizers who enslaved them and sold them for profits. It is not surprising that people like the pharaoh, Nimrods, and Abu Jamal’s put all their strength in support of idolatry.

The proud rulers have always desired that the public should bow before them as they bow before God and they should accept their edicts without a murmur. So those who bow in worship before idols made of stone and wood are ever willing to bow before livings gods so we see that the Pharaoh announced, “ I am your great God” Verse 24 of Surah Naza’at says, “ I am you lord the most high!” The pharaoh thus declared himself to be a greater god than all the idols. After taking all the three causes into account we can say that the blasphemers have always supported idolatry and have given impetus to it but the way of the apostles that has always resisted weakness in faith and slavery was always united, aware and knowledgeable.

We now turn our attention to the tradition attributed to Hazrat Imam Jafar Sadiq (AS) in which he said, “ Banu Omaiyya have given the people freedom to learn about Islam and faith but they did not allow them to learn about polytheism so that they could impose it whenever they wanted and they would not understand.

This issue has been indirectly referred to by the Qura’n in verse 3 of Surah Saba that says, “But if you could see when the polytheists will be made to stand before their Lord, how they will accuse one another. Those who were deemed will say to those who were arrogant, “Had it not been for you we could certainly have been believers!”

 


 

1. Usul Kafi Vol. 2 Page 415

 

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