Kitab at Tawheed Ch#19 -Excessive Dogma in Rightesous Persons/ Prophets cause of Disbelief

KITAB AT TAWHEED - CH# 19
Excessive Dogma in the Righteous Persons is the Root;

Cause of Infidelity/ Disbelief of Mankind and its deviation from True Religion
The Statement of Allah the Almighty and Most Exalted:

"O People of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, nor say of Allah anything but the truth..."
(4:171)
In the Sahih, Ibn Abbas (May Allah be pleased with him) commented on the verse:
"And they have said: You shall not leave your gods, nor shall you leave Wadd nor Suwa` nor Yaghuth nor Ya'uq nor Nasr (names of the idols)."
(71:23)
He said:
"These are the names of some righteous persons from Noah's (Nuh) people. When they passed away, Satan inspired their people to set up statues in their honour and set them in their gathering places, and to give these statues the names of those departed. They did this but did Not worship them until these people passed away and knowledge of their origins were forgotten, then they were worshipped."
Ibn Al-Qaiyim (May Allah be pleased with him) said that most of our predecessors have stated: After the death (of the righteous persons), they confined at their graves and made statues and after much time passed they started worshipping them.
Umar (bin AI-Khattab (May Allah be pleased with him)) is reported to have said that Allah's Messenger (May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) said:

"Do not exaggerate in praise of me just as the Christians exaggerated in the praise of Jesus, son of Mary. I am but a slave, so call me Allah's slave and His Messenger." (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
Allah's Messenger (May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) said:

"Be ware of exaggeration. Your predecessors perished on account of their exaggeration." In (Sahih) Muslim, Abdullah bin Mas'ud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Messenger (May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) said:

"Destroyed are those who are extreme (in religion)." He (May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) said it three times.

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