Worshiping several gods instead of worshiping the real Creator, according to common logic, has got the following problems:
1. Only the God who is the Creator and Cherisher of the universe deserves worship and not his creations however big they may be.
2. The objects of worship cannot see, feel or listen to your prayers whereas God the Omniscient, Omnipotent Master can hear them and answer them as He wishes.
3. The object of worship other than the real God has a beginning and an end exists as per the dictations of God. Whereas God is ever living and ever watching.
It is worth metioning a verse from the Quran here:
'And of His portents are the night and the day and the sun and the moon. Adore not the sun nor the moon; but adore Allah Who created them, if it is in truth Him whom ye worship. '(Quran 41:37)
4. Worshiping God directly as taught by His messengers and scriptures is easy, simple and totally expense-less. It does not require any intermediaries who exploit in the name of Him.
5. Worshiping any thing other than God leads to anger of God and to sin as it is condemned in the holy scriptures sent by God.
For example, In the Quran we can see these verses:
"Indeed Allah does not forgive shirk (i.e. act of associate any partners with Him), but He forgives other than that to whom He pleases." [An Nisaa 4:48]
He, the Sublime said:
"Indeed shirk is the greatest oppression." [Luqman: 13]
Allah, the Most High also said:
"...Indeed he who associates partners in worship with Allah, then Allah has forbidden Jannah (Paradise) for him, and the Fire (of Hell) will be his abode ."
(Allah - means 'the only God who is worthy of worship'. The uniqueness of this word compared to the other words denoting God is that it does not have plural or gender)
In the holy books revered by Hinduism also we can still see such verses. for example,
Yajurveda Chapter No. 40 Verse No. 9, says, “They are entering darkness those who worship the ‘Asambhuti’, the natural things like fire, water, air, etc and the verse continues, they are entering more in darkness those who worship the Sambhuti, those who worship the created things like idols, chair, table etc.
6. Worshiping anything other than Creator distorts the concept of God in human minds and thus removes the seriousness about presence of God. This leads to growth of sins in the society as man feels there is none to question about his deeds.
7. Worshiping anything other than God draws the wrath of Him as we are insulting His Majesty by equating Him with something which does not have any of His attributes.
8. Showing some lifeless and senseless objects and attributing to it godhood is a Big lie. It is like showing a pencil and calling it as washing machine or showing an apple and calling it an elephant!
9. As ignorant people start believing this lie, tactfully fabricated by middlemen, people start believing in the superstitions they propagate. This is the basis for further exploitation in the name of religion.
Thus they loot the income of rich and poor of the country. One can imagine the volume of collections falling in the hundies kept at these shrines (including darghas) by multiplying number of shrines and their average income. Everyone knows about crores of rupees worth jewels stored idle inside the shrines and how they are exploited by the middlemen from the media reports.
10. Imagining God in various forms and worshiping Him in such different forms makes permanent divisions in humanity such as castes. Each of them tends to believe that they have their own, separate, rightful gods. But worshiping the Creator directly without attributing any figures to Him leads to abolition of such castes and building of universal brotherhood, cutting across the barriers of race, color, country etc. Indeed, this unity is quite evident among the people who have accepted the faith of Islam. Muslims of India, for example, are the people, who at some point or the other in the past, belongs to different creeds and castes. However, today their cohesion as a single community is so complete that none of them now knows the caste their respective ancestors belonged to. Similarly, elsewhere in the world, Islam abolished – at a very practical level – the differentiation of people on the basis of color.
So the best way beneficial for citizens and the nation is to worship the Creator directly with out attributing godhood to any of His creations and without allowing any intermediaries. Let us understand God as He Himself describes in His Book:
Say (O Prophet): 'Allah is one and the only. He is absolute. He neither begets nor was He begotten. There is none comparable to Him.’ (The Qur’an 112:1-4)
And when My servants ask you, [O Muhammad], concerning Me - indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. So let them respond to Me [by obedience] and believe in Me that they may be [rightly] guided. (The Qur'an 2: 186)
1. Only the God who is the Creator and Cherisher of the universe deserves worship and not his creations however big they may be.
2. The objects of worship cannot see, feel or listen to your prayers whereas God the Omniscient, Omnipotent Master can hear them and answer them as He wishes.
3. The object of worship other than the real God has a beginning and an end exists as per the dictations of God. Whereas God is ever living and ever watching.
It is worth metioning a verse from the Quran here:
'And of His portents are the night and the day and the sun and the moon. Adore not the sun nor the moon; but adore Allah Who created them, if it is in truth Him whom ye worship. '(Quran 41:37)
4. Worshiping God directly as taught by His messengers and scriptures is easy, simple and totally expense-less. It does not require any intermediaries who exploit in the name of Him.
5. Worshiping any thing other than God leads to anger of God and to sin as it is condemned in the holy scriptures sent by God.
For example, In the Quran we can see these verses:
"Indeed Allah does not forgive shirk (i.e. act of associate any partners with Him), but He forgives other than that to whom He pleases." [An Nisaa 4:48]
He, the Sublime said:
"Indeed shirk is the greatest oppression." [Luqman: 13]
Allah, the Most High also said:
"...Indeed he who associates partners in worship with Allah, then Allah has forbidden Jannah (Paradise) for him, and the Fire (of Hell) will be his abode ."
(Allah - means 'the only God who is worthy of worship'. The uniqueness of this word compared to the other words denoting God is that it does not have plural or gender)
In the holy books revered by Hinduism also we can still see such verses. for example,
Yajurveda Chapter No. 40 Verse No. 9, says, “They are entering darkness those who worship the ‘Asambhuti’, the natural things like fire, water, air, etc and the verse continues, they are entering more in darkness those who worship the Sambhuti, those who worship the created things like idols, chair, table etc.
6. Worshiping anything other than Creator distorts the concept of God in human minds and thus removes the seriousness about presence of God. This leads to growth of sins in the society as man feels there is none to question about his deeds.
7. Worshiping anything other than God draws the wrath of Him as we are insulting His Majesty by equating Him with something which does not have any of His attributes.
8. Showing some lifeless and senseless objects and attributing to it godhood is a Big lie. It is like showing a pencil and calling it as washing machine or showing an apple and calling it an elephant!
9. As ignorant people start believing this lie, tactfully fabricated by middlemen, people start believing in the superstitions they propagate. This is the basis for further exploitation in the name of religion.
Thus they loot the income of rich and poor of the country. One can imagine the volume of collections falling in the hundies kept at these shrines (including darghas) by multiplying number of shrines and their average income. Everyone knows about crores of rupees worth jewels stored idle inside the shrines and how they are exploited by the middlemen from the media reports.
10. Imagining God in various forms and worshiping Him in such different forms makes permanent divisions in humanity such as castes. Each of them tends to believe that they have their own, separate, rightful gods. But worshiping the Creator directly without attributing any figures to Him leads to abolition of such castes and building of universal brotherhood, cutting across the barriers of race, color, country etc. Indeed, this unity is quite evident among the people who have accepted the faith of Islam. Muslims of India, for example, are the people, who at some point or the other in the past, belongs to different creeds and castes. However, today their cohesion as a single community is so complete that none of them now knows the caste their respective ancestors belonged to. Similarly, elsewhere in the world, Islam abolished – at a very practical level – the differentiation of people on the basis of color.
So the best way beneficial for citizens and the nation is to worship the Creator directly with out attributing godhood to any of His creations and without allowing any intermediaries. Let us understand God as He Himself describes in His Book:
Say (O Prophet): 'Allah is one and the only. He is absolute. He neither begets nor was He begotten. There is none comparable to Him.’ (The Qur’an 112:1-4)
And when My servants ask you, [O Muhammad], concerning Me - indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. So let them respond to Me [by obedience] and believe in Me that they may be [rightly] guided. (The Qur'an 2: 186)
