How the Belief Gets Polluted!

Effect of the dominant civilization is an inexorable fact, seldom to be made off. Not only the outer spheres of life, but they change the inner life also bears the brunt with a drastic change. Ways of life and social trends as well as minds and natures are metamorphosed and get deep impression of predominant culture. Views and thoughts and also tenets and dogmas get a new transform. The decisions of lawfulness and prohibition start made under the convictions of the controlling civilization. Moral values get afresh definition in the light of the overpowering civilization’s philosophies.


We see this happening to almost all the communities who were subdued by heavy powers around them. This all befell the Jews and Christians. The nature of the children of Israel was totally corrupted under the rule of the Pharaohs and they had started mimicking most of the antagonistic values of the Egyptians. With the moral traditions even the belief of Oneness of Allah, the very basic creed of their religions could not be saved from polytheistic imprints.

Allah, the Lord of the worlds, is Omnipresent and Omniscient, but He keeps Himself invisible. Man’s nature ‘Khoogare Paikare Mehsoos’ (demanding Him to be in grasp of human senses) did not remain contented. He invented the deities according to his imagination and started worshiping them. Going beyond this, we see the Christians invented the belief of trinity beholding Christ and his mother Merry also to be God.

Reverence of the religious leaders and spiritual guides is not a contemptible thing, but it has limits. As excess of everything is bad, an excessive deference causes to create many ‘fitan’ becomes the reason of a great disbelief and impieties. Hyperbole in esteem and exaggeration in respect mostly lead the communities to the trials and troubles.

In Islam, in existence of the Quran, never to be a subject of any change, and clear teachings of the Messenger of Allah, be peace and blessings upon him, it has been difficult to design something to be God, but the external influences worked in the name of ‘Tasawwuf’ (mysticism) and some groups came into being which emulating the polytheism of the Christians, ascribed a lot of Divine Attributes to the saints. The saints, highly noble and pious people, in their lives, always had been the preachers of Monotheism.

Once the saints were raised to the heights with many Divine Attributes, a new problem was sure to occur. Where the Holy Prophet, SAW, to be placed in case of status of the saints was so elevated. The solution was found in raising the Holy Prophet, SAW, almost equal to Allah, SWT, in his authorities and powers. Now all has become in vogue in Muslim Ummah which was the particularity of the Christians in case of the Christ.