Mughal1,
The "agreed ground work" needs to be ready for any reference. Ok I go here:
"MINDOONALLAH" in Quran includes many things not only IDols as you maintain. So if "Angels" are bracketed
with Mindoonallah in Quran, then according to your criteria they will also go to hell? Yes or No.
Thank you brother, yes mindoonillah wherever it is used by allah in the quran is for idols. However it is also used by mushrikoon etc and that is just quoted by allah and only to deny their claim.
For example;
005.116 YUSUFALI: And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah'?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, Thou I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden.
Here allah is actually excluding jesus from mindoonillah because the mushrik are including him. Likewise allah denies angels being gods or godesses other than allah. Allah says these is nonsense talk by these mushrikoon.
So if allah includes them then that will be sufficient proof that mindoonillah is used for other than allah eg for prophets and saints etc. THis is very important distinction that I thought I should make.
You can now see another point from me that allah says minddon9oillah are idols and mushrik claim that others are also mindoonillah but allah says no they are not mindoonillah rather they are from me ie they are min allah.
The issue is becoming more clear now that only mushrik claim that prophets and angels and saints etc are gods nor muslims nor allah accept any such thing about them rather all deny claim of mushrikeen.
053.027 YUSUFALI: Those who believe not in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names.
053.028 YUSUFALI: But they have no knowledge therein. They follow nothing but conjecture; and conjecture avails nothing against Truth.
004.117 YUSUFALI: (The Pagans), leaving Him, call but upon female deities: They call but upon satan the persistent rebel!
043.015 YUSUFALI: Yet they attribute to some of His servants a share with Him (in his godhead)! truly is man a blasphemous ingrate avowed!
043.016 YUSUFALI: What! has He taken daughters out of what He himself creates, and granted to you sons for choice?
043.017 YUSUFALI: When news is brought to one of them of (the birth of) what he sets up as a likeness to (Allah) Most Gracious, his face darkens, and he is filled with inward grief!
O one more point to note is that when anyone claims god status for any of the godly person, allah does not call them mushrik but instead calls them kaafir. Again a very important point that mindoonillah are idols.
005.073 YUSUFALI: They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.
004.156 YUSUFALI: That they rejected Faith; that they uttered against Mary a grave false charge;
009.030 YUSUFALI: The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!
098.001 YUSUFALI: Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, were not going to depart (from their ways) until there should come to them Clear Evidence,-
098.006 YUSUFALI: Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures.
003.052 YUSUFALI: When Jesus found Unbelief on their part He said: "Who will be My helpers to (the work of) Allah?" Said the disciples: "We are Allah's helpers: We believe in Allah, and do thou bear witness that we are Muslims.
thanks and all the best
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