Tauheed verses Polytheism
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen the Muslims were faced with a great defeat at Uhud the enemy seized the opportunity and started such devices against the Islamic view of Oneness of Allah as had […]
Polytheism (Shirk)
By Allah! If you had been a true god you would not have been lying in a well tied to a dead dog.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ansar had thirst for Islam and its sublime and invigorative programme, and in order to purify Madina of all traces of polytheism and idol-worship they had burnt the idols […]
Harut and Marut
Reading Time: 4 minutes‘Ali ibn Ibrahim and Ayyashi have in their tafsirs, narrated from Imam Muhammad al-Baqir that every day and every night, angels used to descend for taking up deeds of the […]
Shaitaan Misguides Barseesa
Reading Time: 2 minutesShaykh Tabarsi and other commentators have narrated from Ibn ‘Abbas that there was a worshipper named Barseesa among The Israelites who worshipped his deity so much that whatever he asked […]
The Chastisement of the People of ‘Ad
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen Prophet Hud (a.s) was forty years of his age, Allah revealed to him: “Go to your nation and invite your people towards monotheism and My worship.” The nation of […]
Debate with the Polytheists
Reading Time: < 1 minuteProphet Ibrahim (a.s), in explaining and propagating the concept of monotheism, found himself in persistent conflict with the idolaters – who possessed idols and statues, and the star-worshippers – who […]
Disbelief and Polytheism
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the death of Hisham Ibn Abdul Malik – the Umayyad Caliph, Walid Ibn Yazid took over the reins of the Caliphate in the year 125 ah. He was of […]
Concealed Polytheism
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAbu Said al-Khudri narrates: “We were a few individuals, who, in a difficult and dangerous period, had shouldered the responsibility of guarding the Noble Prophet (s.a.w) in turn and according […]
A Polytheist Turns Into a Believer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteShabih Ibn Uthman was a polytheist whose father and brother had been killed by the Muslims in the battle of Uhud. He awaited an opportunity to kill the Noble Prophet […]