Rationale Behind Ibrahim عليه السلام Destroying Idols
I apologize that I confused it with the Kaaba. Whatever the place of worship they placed their idols in, it was still supposed to be used for worshiping one God. It was not someone else’s place of worship – his own father was the caretaker of it. Ibrahim AS also reasoned with his people first – the time span of which we have no knowledge about – and then resorted to breaking the idols. Please see Quran verses 21:51-56. Your analogy about some outsider coming into a mosque and destroying it doesn’t apply.
Thank you- this seems to make sense. Do we have any way to know whether it was more 1 or 2? Your message reminded me of some My Hindu neighbours who used to bathe their idols on Diwali i think
This would have been easier to know if some polytheistic religions had survived in the regions of Kan’aan and Arabian Peninsula. Also, sometimes it is hard to figure out the binaries because, honestly, there is a very thin line btw 1 and 2. But the kind of stress that the Bible and Quran lay on the magnitude of the sin of idolatry, my guess is that it might be 1st.