3d • General discussion
Prophet Yunus in the Quran
*And they worship beside Allah what can neither harm them nor profit them, and they say: These are our intercessors with Allah. Say: Do you (presume to) inform Allah of what He knows not in the heavens and the earth? Glory be to Him, and supremely exalted is He above what they set up (with Him). (10:18)*
An pre-Islamic idol worshipper’s thought process (Al-Mizan, v.19, pg 132-133):
🗿My worship to my idols makes me draw closer to the chief idol of the smaller idols - and the the chief idols brings us closer to Allah.
🗿The chief idols are Allah’s most beloved creatures.
🗿 Allah has delegated the management of the universe to the chief idols and they do everything (and Allah has retired).
🗿We worship the (lifeless) idols so the chief idol can intercede for us with Allah.
📖 Instead of saying they worship idols, Qur’an says they worship “what can neither harm them nor profit them” - ie. lifeless things they made themselves which can’t even help themselves let alone hear your worship and intercede for you.
📖 Qur’an says: “they say: ‘These are our intercessors with Allah.’ Say: ‘Do you (presume to) inform Allah of what He knows not…’ - i.e, you believe Allah doesn’t know about these idol-intercessors and so YOU are deciding who is your intercessor and YOU are informing Allah of who they are!!
📖 The illogic upon illogic of their thought profess is pointed out: firstly, you worship something lifeless. Next, you say they intercede for you with Allah - but then you also say Allah doesn’t know these intercessors. How can someone be Allah’s beloved who intercedes but Allah doesn’t even know about this beloved intercessor!!!!
📖 In 2:255, Allah tells us in the famous Ayat al-kursi: *“…to Him belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him but by His Permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they comprehend nothing of His knowledge except what He wills….”*
📖 Allama Tabataba’i explains 2:255 as follows: Intercession means being an intermediary in bringing about a good or averting an evil. There is no doubt that an intercessor has some influence on the affairs of the thing for which he intercedes. Such influence could be contrary to the complete authority of Allah, if it was not been based on the permission of Allah. But every cause is effective only from the decree of Allah. There is no cause and no thing which is independent of the will of Allah. Every cause is a cause, because Allah has made it so. Therefore, whatever effect and influence it has on anything is in fact done by Allah. Ultimately, there is no authority except that of Allah.” (V. 4, Pg. 138)
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Prophet Yunus in the Quran
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