Difference Between Statues And Idols
Read both of it sir, As Ghamidi sahab said ‘As Allah is haq and we make a symbol of it, then there’s no problem. In actual it’s those personalities whose statue or idol we create and then start worshipping or supplicating to it’. He gave example of a flag of nation. So if people don’t make deities of gods or goddesses and create a symbol for the one true God what will be the ruling on it? In Islam we muslims know that Kaaba is a masjid because Allah clarified about it in Quran itself, what if a Hindu brother or a Christian brother tells they’ve been told in their scriptures that these particular symbols are created in order to remember Allah or God or Ishwar whatever we call it. The prime example Ghamidi sahab gave was of Namaz, he said if we’re thinking about someone else in sujood, instantly that salah will become a part of shirk. This makes sense. What will be our responses if they come with some verses about their deities in their holy books?
The interfaith organisation of which I’m a part of has come to a conclusions that Nuh a.s. was sent to india and he’s known as ‘Swyambhu Manu’ in scriptures where great flood ‘Maha pralay’ happened so these can be the start of polytheism in south asia but here I am talking about the ‘Attitude of following majority’ which is common in both muslims and non muslims but muslims are privileged to be born in a community which is worshipping by standing towards the right symbol.