The Origins of Idolatry in Pre -Islamic Makkah
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:15.7 | If the Arabs had a prophet and if this prophet is Ibrahim and Ibrahim is teaching to heed |
| 0:21.5 | where did paganism come from? Simple question. Ibrahim is upon to heed. One God. He doesn't have |
| 0:29.2 | idols. It's Ma'il. One God. Where does paganism come from? Our prophet, |
| 0:33.9 | asalam told us. So then we have a historical fact because our prophet, asalam, said it. |
| 0:38.2 | Our prophet, asalam told us when and where paganism began and how it began. |
| 0:43.4 | Hadith, as al-Sahih Muslim, he said, I saw Amir ibn Luhay al-Khuzayi. He mentions one person. |
| 0:51.4 | Amir ibn Luhay al-Khuzayi wandering around in the fire of hell with his |
| 0:57.9 | entrails cut open behind him. You know, it's a very severe punishment. I saw Amir ibn Luhay al-Khuzayi |
| 1:05.0 | being punished in a humiliating manner. Why? The prophet, asalam, said he was the first to |
| 1:11.8 | baddala deen isma'il. Notice he said deen isma'il. Isma'il's religion. Ibrahim and Isma'il, |
| 1:18.9 | they had a deen. They had a religion that is Islam. The first person to change it was Amir ibn Luhay al-Khuzayi. |
| 1:27.1 | And he was also the first person to introduce superstitions. Allah says in the Qur'an, |
| 1:33.2 | maya jalla lallahu min bahiratin wa l-assahibilatin wa l-walsilatin wa l-aham. These are four |
| 1:37.6 | types of animals and I haven't even memorized them because they're so complicated. If the seventh |
| 1:42.2 | female of a seventh female camel is born, these types of weird superstitions. In other words, |
| 1:46.4 | if you have the second male from a third female, something like this weird permutation, |
| 1:50.7 | that particular animal has to be killed for the gods. So you work out superstitions. |
| 1:55.7 | You work out charms. You work out all of these paganistic stuff. He was the one who began this. |
| 2:01.2 | And it is narrated that Amir ibn Luhayi traveled to Syria. And the Syria, they had the Amalik, |
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