Dear Brother,
Please make your own definition of
'IDOL" or you agree to this definition:
Definition: 1.
object of adoration: somebody or something greatly admired or loved, often to excess
2.
object worshiped as god: something that is worshiped as a god, e.g. a statue or carved image
3.
forbidden object of worship: in monotheistic religions, an object of worship other than the one God
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?lextype=3&search=IDOLS
Let us see how every human, orbit thing, Angels, Jinn, Ladies, Saihtaan fixes into that definition.
Yes, they are objects of worship as god for polytheists and they are idols but also they are told as midoonillah by allah and that they will be fuel of hell fire.
It is not me who is saying they will end up in hell but alah himself as I already quoted from the quran in one of my earlier posts in the other thread.
So to be minddonillah they need to be all that I just stated about them ie they need to be idols, they need to be feul for hell fire, they need to be accepted by allah that they are mindoonillah as mushrik claim them to be their gods. Once all these conditions are met then they are mindoonillah. Other uses of mindoonillah by other matter not eg as the sun is called mindoonillah by hudhuda as quoted by allah.
http://www.answering-christianity.com/quran/qi032.htm
021.098 YUSUFALI: Verily ye, (unbelievers), and the (false) gods that ye worship besides Allah, are (but) fuel for Hell! to it will ye (surely) come!
021.099 YUSUFALI: If these had been gods, they would not have got there! but each one will abide therein.
http://www.tafsir.com/default.asp?sid=21&tid=33497
The Idolators and their gods are Fuel for Hell
Allah says to the people of Makkah, the idolators of the Quraysh and those who followed their religion of idol worship:
http://islamic-replies.ucoz.com/Will_Jesus_go_to_hell.html
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Surah 15 AL-HIJR – THE BEDROCK FOR COMMUNITY
Proclaim in the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
1) Alif Laam Raa. These are arguments for the implementation of this constitution in form of Glorious Quran.
2) The time is coming when those who oppose this program will wish they submitted to it for their peace and security.
3) Leave these self centred leaders and supporters who partake in the world the way that makes them happy at the expense of each other deluded as they are by false goals because soon they will come to know and regret the ways they live their lives as they are gradually led to self destruction.
4) Never did We let any township destroy itself whose term of life was not determined by law of consequences for peoples’ own actions.
5) No people can bring their self destruction quicker or can delay it but as per set out universal laws.
6) They say, O you who claims that this program is revealed to him by Allah for implementation! You are talking nonsense
7) because in that case why have you not been sent with supporting soldiers like a king if you are really truthful in your claim that you are sent by Allah to establish His rule?
8) Let them know clearly that We do not send Our messengers with soldiers unless it serves Our purpose because had they come to them that way then they could not have time to consider the message.
9) Surely We have revealed this program for mankind to think it through thoroughly so that through implementation of this program We provide them with security.
10) That is the reason why We sent messengers before you among the earlier nations the way We have sent you for this people,
11) though there never came to them a messenger but their political and religious leadership mocked him just like these chiefs and their supporters mock you.
12) That is why We leave such people to themselves to keep on conspiring against Our guidance as their harmful and destructive mindsets and attitudes guide them therefore they continue in their crimes against humanity while spreading falsehood against Our program to create doubts in minds of their people so that they do not commit to working for peace and fight against Our messengers instead.
13) Behaviour of these chiefs and their supporters is likewise so they too do not commit to working for peace despite the examples of the people who destroyed themselves before them assuming their masses are under their full control so will not revolt against their tyranny and abuse.
14) For this very reason if We open a way for masses to explore the universe and they keep on ascending into space using that way,
15) still these people will say, our eyes are seeing things or rather we have been duped for such an experience cannot be real, it is impossible.
16) No matter how silly are remarks of these people the fact is We have brought about in space galaxies full of stars and beautifully arranged them for those who wish to observe them for their set out purpose.
17) That is why We guarded them against any wrong force that may misinterpret and misuse them,
18) so only such a person will observe them properly as is overwhelmed by piercing curiosity of existence, purpose and function.
19) Moreover We expanded the earth and brought about mountains therein and caused in it everything to grow,
20) and We provided therein means of sustenance for you and others for whom you are not responsible to care for them.
21) There is nothing which is not in Our storage in an unending quantity/amount but we bring forth only as much as is appropriate.
22) We give rise to the fertilizing winds and send down fresh water from the height for you the mankind to drink, it is not your chiefs and priests who own the store of this wealth.
23) That is how We bring nations to life through Our program and let them perish if they follow it not because to Us belongs ownership of all that exists.
24) Indeed We make obvious those who rush forth to take control of things from among you to exclude others and We also make obvious those from among you who end up losing as a result of this senseless rivalry.
25) Surely your Lord is going to bring them all together through His this program and that is how He makes known to mankind that He rules the universe through wisdom.
26) We surely brought about man ignorant about everything who needed to be cultivated into a civilised human being through Our program like a piece of clay that is like mud which is moulded into a desire shape.
27) As for the dominant harmful and destructive ruling and priestly elite we exposed it before the mankind spreading hatred among people.
28) Call to mind when your Lord sent message to the chiefs at the time by way of His messenger saying, I am going to cultivate a man through My program for him into a highly civilised human being like a piece of clay that is like mud which is moulded into a desired shape
29) and when I have completed My moulding of him into a shape I want for him thereby make him conscious of Me by way of My revelation then commit yourselves to support him as your chief.
30) That is why all the chiefs together committed themselves to supporting him
31) save Iblees who refused to join those who committed themselves for this purpose.
32) Allah asked, O Iblees! What is the matter with you that you did not join those who committed themselves for supporting Adam?
33) He replied, it is not fitting for a person of my status coming from elite class that I commit myself for supporting this man whom You have cultivated from among low status people like a piece of clay that is like mud which is moulded into a shape.
34) Allah replied to him through his messenger at the time, leave the title you were granted as a chief in this office because you are sacked
35) and you will remain excluded from My promised blissful life till the time you judge things according to My set out constitution.
36) At this Iblees requested, Lord! Give me time to reflect till the day the office holders take their offices as officials.
37) Allah said, you are given the respite
38) till the day of appointment of the officials.
39) Iblees said, Lord! Since You denied me my office because of this man, I will make my way of life attractive to him and his associates in the land and I will conspire to lead them out of their offices as well
40) save those of them who are sincerely devoted to Your program.
41) Allah said, see this program from Me is firmly founded upon proofs
42) so you have no power against my officials firmly based upon knowledge from Me but only those arrogant and ignorant will follow your way of life and become of the humiliated
43) and that is how they all will end up in painful suffering,
44) wherein lead many ways, each way of life is assigned to a separate community of people from among the mankind.
45) However those who will develop proper mindset and attitude and do as they are guided will end up in the middle of blissful kingdoms with fountains of knowledge from which will spring peace and prosperity
46) That is why they are told, enter in to these for your own peace and security.
47) We will remove all hatred from their minds against each other making them like brothers settled on seats of dignity due to supporting each other.
48) No fatigue should touch them in there due to working for each other and they should not do anything that kicks them out of that state of existence.
49) Thereby let My devotees make obvious for the mankind that I am indeed gracious and merciful
50) and that My set out consequences for actions of people are also humiliating and very painful.
51) Tell them about the missionaries that came to people of Abraham.
52) They entered upon them and said, we come to you for your peace and security. But he replied, surely we are anxious to know about your future plan.
53) They answered, worry not about it, we have come to you with a good news of a successor endowed with knowledge.
54) He said, are you giving me the good news of successor because I am getting old? What kind of good news is this that you are giving me?
55) They replied, the good news we are giving you is because of the continuation of the mission so that you do not become of those who despair.
56) He said, who will get bored with blissful program of his Lord other than the one who strays?
57) Then he asked, what is your current mission that you have been sent for, O people on a mission?
58) They replied, we have been sent by our prophet to deal with a people who commit crimes among themselves as well as against other people
59) with the exception of a party that supports Lot, we will certainly evacuate all of them
60) except his party of people that opposes him, which is going to stay with those chiefs and priests who will remain behind.
61) So when the missionaries came to the people of Lot,
62) he said, you people seem to be those who fight those who commit crimes?
63) They said, we have come to you with a solution regarding that whereby these people cause trouble.
64) We have been sent on a mission and we are to fulfil it.
65) You should therefore depart with your supporters during the last hours of the night and you yourself should follow them at their rear and let none of you look back to this place with any regrets instead keep going where you are told to go.
66) We informed him about this decree of Ours that the roots of those who remain behind are soon to be cut off through this new beginning.
67) Behold! The people of the township came rejoicing to Lot at the news of his visitors.
68) Lot said, they are my guests so do not humiliate me before them
69) instead be consistent with rule of Allah for the good of the community and do not put me to shame in front of my guests by doing things you usually do to each other and the travellers through our township.
70) They said, have we not stopped you from speaking on behalf of people in the rest of the world?
71) He said, here are my basis upon which I stand and invite you to abide by if you must do anything purposeful and worthwhile at all because living a life of crime inflicting harm on others is a waste of life.
72) Just like way of life of your people O messenger, they were driven to madness through rivalries for power and wealth!
73) So the mighty revolt in form of a sudden tumult overtook them by one morning
74) because We caught the place turned upside down due to their revolt against Our program as We made obvious to it importance of organised institutions and record keeping in a classified way.
75) Surely there are evidences in this for those who will care to investigate as to what happens to people who refuse to do things properly and why.
76) And as it happens this ruined township lies on the highway you travel.
77) Indeed there is a lesson in this for those who commit to working for peace.
78) The people who lived in the land full of trees and greenery to whom was sent Shuaib were also of those who inflicted harm and destruction upon each other
79) so We sent Our program to guide them but they ignored it. The ruined townships of both the nations lay by the road used most frequently by you the people.
80) The people who lived in land of rocky hills also denied the God given rights of provision to their people as told by their messengers.
81) because We furnished them with Our revelations but they too ignored them.
82) They used to carve their homes in the mountains for safety
83) but the mighty sudden uprising took them by surprise one morning so all their hard labour to build secure place for themselves avail them not at all.
84) We have not created all the far away galaxies and this galaxy and all that is between them but for a set purpose.
85) The moment of doom is for sure to strike those who abide not by Our program, so face their opposition in a courageous way that is dignified.
86) Surely your Lord makes obvious for mankind what dignified behaviour is.
87) That is why We have brought to your attention many evidences that back up The Quran that raises mankind to height of dignified existence.
88) So look not at the power and wealth which We have let some political and religious elite gather for themselves at the expense of human community as a favour from Us because they gathered it by declaring war against Our guidance, and furthermore grieve not at the suffering of those who continuously support the same system that hurts them and yet they ignore and oppose Our guidance. Let them remain caught in their self defeating delusions and instead pay much more attention to those who commit themselves to working for peace
89) and say to the opposing ruling and priestly elite and its following, I am surely sent by Allah as an open and clear warner to all the people.
90) This Quran is indeed the warning like of which We sent to those before you who also decided to remain in the opposite camps and the results of that were made obvious again and again
91) because they too were the ones who tore their constitutions into bits out of disrespect for rule of law and humanity and ended up in animosity whereby they inflicted terrible harm and destruction upon each other.
92) By the evidence of testimony of your Lord! We asked them to be united
93) for all they needed to do for their own good.
94) Therefore proclaim publicly what you are commanded and leave those who choose to abide by rules of other than Allah to their self created delusions.
95) Surely We Ourself will suffice you against the scoffers and the warmongers.
96) As to those who set up rulers other than Allah they will soon come to know the end result of that which they do.
97) We know your mind is distressed by what they say and do
98) therefore strive hard to establish the sovereignty of your Lord and be with those who commit themselves for this task
99) and that is how you should serve the mission of your Lord until there reaches you the news of accomplishment of the mission which is absolutely certain to happen.