Prophets Stories In Islam

The Beginning Of Idol worship After Idris's (as) Death

Idris was born in Babylon, a city in present-day Iraq. Before He received the revelation, He (as) followed the rules revealed to Prophet Sheeth (as),the son of Adam (as). When Idris (as) grew older, Allah (swt) bestowed Prophethood on Him. During His lifetime all the people were Muslims; no one associated partners with Allah (swt). Afterwards, Idris (as) left His hometown of Babylon because a great number of his people committed many sins even after He told them not to do so. Some of the Muslims left with Him. It was hard for them to leave their home.
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They asked Prophet Idris (as): "If we leave Babylon, where will we find a place like Babylon?"
He (as) replied: "If we immigrate for the sake of Allah (swt), He (swt) will provide for us."
So the people went with Prophet Idris (as) and they reached the land of Egypt. They saw the Nile River. Idris (as) stood at its bank and mentioned Allah, the Exalted, by saying, "Subhan Allah."
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And Idris (as) passed away and His soul was taken in the fourth heaven. As I mentioned in the earlier post "The Story of Prophet Idris (as)" corruption was increasing until Idris (as) destroyed a great portion of it. After the death of Idris (as) corruption started to increase even more and more but people still believe in One Lord, Allah (swt). They don't believe in any Idols, any son or any moon. But you see a lot of people that are Muslims, they believe in Allah (swt) but they fell in Haram. That's how the situation was of back then. Especially after the death of Idris (as), people stayed on Tawheed, on Monotheism, and the oneness of Allah (swt) for 1000 years.
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Then after that 1000 year a change started to take place. It became a big gap between the Idris (as) and the next Prophet being sent and the next Prophet was Nuh (as). Idris's (as) father was Yarid and His mother was Barkanah. His wife was Aadanah. Idris (as) also had a son named Methuselah; who would eventually be the grandfather of Prophet Nuh (as). That means Idris (as) was the great-grandfather of Nuh (as).
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In that big gap between Idris and Nuh (as), few centuries, No Prophet, No Messenger. But these Prophets and Messengers had followers and out of the followers there was always the best of followers. When the Prophet went, the people start to look to these followers respected followers. After the death of Ideis (as), there were the followers of Idris (as), very righteous, very God fearing, very obedient to Allah (swt), people used to respect them. At the time of Idris (as), people used to go to him with there problems, but after Idris (as) went, they used to go to these followers with there problems.
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After the death of the righteous people what happened?
There were not many followers of those righteous people. So Shaitan played his game. People were believing in Allah (swt). So at the time of Prophet Idris (as), people would go to Him, Idris (as) went people would go to His righteous followers, and now righteous followers are gone, who do they go back to? So Iblis started to play a game with the minds of the weak people.
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Shaitan came, when righteous followers started to die one by one, Shaitan said to them, "you know what a wonderful person he was, what a wonderful." So Shaitan came and grieved. Now you got to look Shaitan and his tactics here. Shaitan came along and he grieved with them. He said, "Man..... that person, that died, you know don't you feel, oh what a wonderful person he was."
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So Shaitan is there and he is actually grieving over this soul that has passed away. So they started to know this person (shaitaan), this wonderful person who is grieving over this good soul. Then what happens is that the next generation dies, so the same Shaitan comes along and he says, "Man another soul, we have just lost another soul, a good soul on this earth. How much corruption is there on earth." And whenever a good soul goes like this and so on, and he is making people feel like, "wow, he is a good preacher."
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The next time it happens again, he said, "you know what, we should do guys.... We should have a remembrance of this person. So how are we going to have a remembrance of this person, If we don't quickly make something that reminds of this person than we will forget this good soul and his teachings, so quick. " what they do in early days? You saw that early drawings? On the walls, and caves and so on of deers and lions and whatever else, it was of their nature, right? So what Shaitaan told them to do is to make a certain drawings of this individual.
He said," Look, we need to do this, we need to remember good people like this and honor them, we need to do this." so they go ahead and they did this.
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So next generation came, and now he has got a drawing there, you see? He has got a few drawings that are coming up of these pious people that has passed away.
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Next generation he said to them," Hey listen young boys, you know, you are going to die soon, right? You are going to die, you know, you need to respect your elders, respect them, and how you respect to them is, see those carvings on there, pay them your respect. So it's like look upto them, show them that you like them." so they did.
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When the next generation came, he said:" you are the grandchildren of these figures that went. Oh what great grandfather you had, you know these pictures, what you should do, you should take them and we should honor more. Respect them by carving out certain, stones out of their shape of these heads." so they did that, because it was a respect.
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Next generation came, Shaitan said," just bow your head down, that's all you do. Just bow your head down." so they did that.
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Next generation came, He said," These... Are the things that gives you life, bread and everything you have got, don't you realize that? Didn't you see your fathers who do that (bowing the heads)? Well you should got on to the floor and do Sujood to that things." So they did that.
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Next generation He has got them fooled, he tells them," Look..... They are Gods."
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What a mentality of these people is that they have started to believe in something that does not exist. They started to give these statues, stones, and dead people certain beliefs that don't belong to them.
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So they started to say that,"That is the one that gives us rain, that is the one that gives us children, and that is the one that gives us this and that."
So they started to make these beliefs. So in the end Allah (swt) sent Nuh (as), what Nuh (as) was dealing with? He was dealing with a very very stubborn people.