Difference Between Statues And Idols
The History of Idol‐Worship It has been narrated in various ahadith: ʺThere were righteous people who lived in the period between Adam and Nuh and who had followers who held them as role‐models. After their death, their followers who used to love them said: ʹIf we make pictures of them, it will be more pleasing to us in our worship and will remind us of them.ʹ So they made pictures of them, and, after they had died and others came after them, Iblees crept into their minds encouraging them to make statues of them. He taught them to bow down to these statues out of respect. Then when the next generation came, he whispered in their minds saying: ʹYour forefathers used to worship them, and through that worship they got rain.ʹ So they began worshipping these idols.ʺ