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And even Muslims can become an interest group Muslim civil rights Muslim liberties and that's a legitimate cause just like any other civil liberties are a legitimate cause but that's not what's being talked about here what's being talked about here is actually your faith what is it that you believe and why should you be you know why should you be silenced against what you believe so we're going to start reading this from again suratul ambia

and we were fully aware of him we fully knew about him if qalali abihi wa qomihi when he said to his father and to his entire nation

what are these tamathil i'll translate that in a second what are these tamathil that you people sit in front of in devotion so tamathil comes from the Arabic word tamthil which comes from mahtal

is actually an example or an equivalent tamthil becomes a representation so this is interesting because for those people they didn't necessarily worship the idol but the idol represents a god that is somewhere and that god has these powers

it's not this idol you can break the idol and they know that too but these idols represent something more right and then the amulets that they wear or the you know the trinkets that they might put in their car

you know the amulets that they might tie around their arm they represent something right so they could say yeah this is just a piece of string it's just a piece of leather or whatever it is but it represents a supernatural deity behind it right

so this is ibrahim alayhi s-salam challenging a common thread that exists in many religions which is what we take physical objects

and we say this physical object represents something supernatural it represents some kind of god it represents some kind of superpower right so you might find a manifestation of that with you know with Catholics wearing a crucifix and it's a holy thing that they're wearing

they're going to kiss it they're going to keep it you know you'll you'll you'll find in some parts of the world drug dealers that are devout Catholics that are you know before they go into a drug deal

they're going to kiss their crucifix and go in because you know or they're going to pray to a certain saint that's going to watch out for them while they make sure that you know the narcotics distribute in the society properly right so

but you have this notion that objects become holy right you can have you know in the United States for many hotels you'll open up the drawer in the in the side drawer of a hotel room and you'll see a copy of the Bible

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