💢 *The Term Ibadaah*
Part - 3
❖❐ Now we come to some of the verses in which the word is used in the second sense only, that of submission or obedience:
🔰"O Sons of Adam, did I not enjoin on you that you do not give ibadaah to Satan, for he is your avowed enemy?" [Ya-Sin 36/60]
💢As everybody knows, no-one really worships Satan in the formal sense, and in fact he is cursed by the whole world, and hence the above charge, which will be made upon mankind on the Day of Judgment,
💢 means that people who obeyed the commands of the Devil and allowed themselves to be misled to the path shown by him thereby in effect gave their ibadaah to him.
🔰"(And when it will be the Day of Judgment, Allah will say): Gather together all the wrongdoers and their associates, as also the gods other than Allah to whom they gave their ibadaah and show them to the door of Hell." [as-Saffat 37/22-23];
🔰"And they will turn to one another in dispute. The worshipers will say: It is you who used to come to us from the right hand (of power and authority)!
🔰Those worshiped will reply: Nay, (now you are blaming us) but is it not that you yourselves had no Faith and were in obstinate rebellion (to Allah)." [as-Saffat 37/27-30]
💢 If we reflect on the accusation and cross-accusation between those who gave their ibadaah and those to whom it was given, we find that the latter do not here comprise any gods or idols but those religious or other "popular" leaders who came to the people in the garb of well-wishers or saviors of the nation or liberators, etc.,
💢 and led them along the wrong path. The reference is to people who put on sanctified airs, and, while claiming to be friends, caused mischief in the land. It is blind obedience to such people that is here characterized as ibadaah.
🔰"They (Jews and Christians) made their learned men and priests their rabbs instead of Allah, and Isa son of Maryam too, though they were not bidden except to give their ibadaah to Allah alone." [at-Tawbah 9/31]
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