قَالُوا۟ نَعْبُدُ أَصْنَامًۭا فَنَظَلُّ لَهَا عَٰكِفِينَ
Qaaloo na'budu asnaaman fanazallu lahaa 'aakifeen
They said, "We worship idols and remain to them devoted."
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Lessons from past peoples
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56 ayahs in Ash-Shu'araa are strongly about lessons from past peoples.
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They said ‘We worship idols — they reiterate the verb in the response in order to supplement it with the following remark — and remain cleaving to them’ we remain worshipping them all day; they give a longer response to indicate their misplaced pride in such an act.
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“Even so do We let it creep into the hearts of the sinners.” He said: Polytheism
"The idolaters kept the Prophet from the 'Asr prayer until the sun had set. He said: 'They kept us from performing the middle prayer; may Allah fill their graves and their houses with fire.'"
"I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) while I had a cross of gold around my neck. He said: 'O 'Adi! Remove this idol from yourself!' And I heard him reciting from Surah Bara'ah: They took their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah (9:31). He said: 'As for them, they did not worship them, but when they made something lawful for them, they considered it lawful, and when they made something unlawful for them, they considered it unlawful.'"
"The idolators said: 'We see that your companion teaches you how to go to the toilet.' He said: 'Yes, he forbade us from cleaning ourselves with our right hand, and from facing toward the Qiblah, and he said: 'None of you should clean with less than three stones.'"
We used to worship stones, and when we found a better stone than the first one, we would throw the
first one and take the latter, but if we could not get a stone then we would collect some earth (i.e. soil)
and then bring a sheep and milk that sheep over it, and perform the Tawaf around it. When the month
of Rajab came, we used (to stop the military actions), calling this month the iron remover, for we used
to remove and throw away the iron parts of every spear and arrow in the month of Rajab. Abu Raja'
added: When the Prophet (ﷺ) sent with (Allah's) Message, I was a boy working as a shepherd of my
family camels. When we heard the news about the appearance of the Prophet, we ran to the fire, i.e. to
Musailima al-Kadhdhab.
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