And Allaah guides not wrong doing folk. Idols and graven images are the inventions of the people who worship them, instead of the Almighty. Some people say that as a ' beginner ', man needs 'something' to relate with the Almighty. This is just an excuse, in order to carry on the idol-worshipping. Because, as you would see, even after the 'beginner' becomes a 'veteran' , he does not discard his idol.
Scriptures are unanimous in their opposition to graven images.
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. When there is nothing like Him, how can anyone conceive an idol that can represent God's image. Yet man has unjustly taken God's creatures and man's own fabrications as God. And We verily gave Abraham of old his proper course, and We were Aware of him, 52.