the power to do them good or harm, or give them life or
death.
Idolatry in Arabia had reached its peak, where every
region and every clan or rather every house had a separate
deity of its own. Three hundred and sixty idols had been
installed within the Ka'ba and its courtyard - the house
built by Abraham ('alaihi salaam) for the worship of the
One and only God. The Arabs actually paid divine honors
not merely to sculptured idols but venerated all types of
stones and fetish---angels, jinn and stars were all their
deities. They believed that the angels were daughters of
God and the jinn His partners in divinity and thus both
enjoyed supernatural powers whose mollification was
essential for their well-being.
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