What is Idol worship as mentioned by Quran. Even many muslims think statue worship is Idol Worship. Which is absolutely wrong.
Idol worship not only related to worshiping statues or images or symbols alone. Even if you symbolizes anything as God the almighty, which may be accepted.
As per Quran, anything which occupies your mind more often than God is Idol Worship.
If you think of money and doing business for money like anything,
money becomes your God. Doing business for making more money rather
than meeting out your basic needs. It is Idol Worship.
Someone cheated you. You get angry with him. Days and nights you
think of the person who cheated you. You imagine how can you retaliate.
Nothing is more important to you than revenging him. Now the person
who cheated you is your God. He occupies your mind more than anything
in twenty four hours a day. Now you are committing the sin Idol Worship
as mentioned by Quran.
Anything which occupies your mind for longer period and often is your God.
If you allow anything to fill your mind other than God, you are committing Idol Worship.
You have decease. If you always thinking and worrying about the
decease, the decease is your God. you are worshiping the Decease.
You have some fear. You always speaks about your fear, you always act by your fear, thoughts of fear haunting you like anything. Now fear is your God. You are worshiping Fear. This is Idol worshiping.
If your brother or sister or children or friend or relative died
unexpectedly. You keep thinking about the died person and sulk in
depression. Now the died person is your God. You are worshiping the
death soul.
You get a good job with high salary. You always proclaim your job
and salary proudly. Your body language reflects your job and the
richness. You move with the people, speak, think, live based on your
Job and Salary. you enjoy your identification with your profession. Now your Career is your God, not God is your God. You are Idol worshiping your Career.
Here is a Example from Hindu Mythology:
In Mahabaratha, Krishna has a separate episode with Kamsan his uncle.
As per the oracle, Kamsan will be killed by his sister’s son. Kamsan
tried to avoid it. But later on, Kamsan comes to know, Krishna is his
sister’s son, who escaped from all his efforts to kill him.
Now, Kamsan afraid of death, being killed by Krishna. Every second
he thinks about krishna. Wherever he looks he see Krishna’s face.
Whatever sound he hears, it seems to be Krishna’s voice. While
breathing in and out, he utter the name of Krishna.
Now Kamsan’s god is Krishna, because Kamsan fills his mind with Krishna. Now Kamsan is doing Idol worshiping.
Shivering/Haunting/Thinking about something other than God more often or always is Idol Worship.
Hope, some how you understand what is Idol worship as prohibited by Quran.
Worshiping statues, images, icons, symbols are not only Idol worship. Of course there are also Idol worship, but Idol worship is not confined to statue worship alone.
If our mind is vibrated by anything other than God is Idol worship.
During Vinayagar Chaturthi or Ganesh Chaturthi, even some muslims also think about the elephant statue.
Some people(hindus) keep thinking about the elephant statue because
of Devotion. Some people(muslims) keep thinking about the elephant
statue because of angriness and aversion. Both act on the elephant
statue based on their emotions.
Whatever may be the emotion but both sections keep thinking about the
elephant statue more than anything else. So both are committing the
sin Idol Worship during Chaturthi.
Quran contains God’s message to worship God alone, but mistakenly people worship Quran more than God.
Idol worship is a sin happening mostly at thought level when compared to statue worship. Idol worship is committed by people from all the religion including muslims.
If you are a Muslim, not agreeing with the above explanation for Idol Worship, damn sure you have not read Quran at least once in your life time.
