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Allah looks like a deity

Here is a Qur’anic verse which says that Allah is the only deity to be worshipped. This means that Allah’s countenance must be like a deity—just like any supreme idol. The only difference is that Allah is the only idol to be worshipped. We have already seen this idol in nothing but in the stone/s of Ka’ba. 

043.045   YUSUFALI: And question thou our messengers whom We sent before thee; did We appoint any deities other than (Allah) Most Gracious, to be worshipped? 

Here is a hadith to elaborate more on this. 

Allah was a deity…(Sunaan Abu Dawud, 1.1.0169) 

This hadith is not available online. So I shall quote from the print version of Sunaan Abu Dawud vol.I, Hadith number 169: 

‘Uqbah b. ‘Amir said: We served ourselves in the company of Messenger of Allah (may be peace on him). We tended our camels by turn. One day I had my turn to tend the camels, and I drove them in the afternoon. I found the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) addressing the people. I heard him say: Anyone amongst you who performs ablution, and does it well, then he stands and offers two rak’ahs of prayer, concentrating on it with his heart and body, Paradise will be his lot by all means. I said: Ha–ha! How fine it is! A man in front of me said: The action (mentioned by the Prophet) earlier, O ‘Uqbah, is finer than this one. I looked at him and found him to be ‘Umar b. al-Khattab. I asked him: What is that, O Abu Hafs? He replied: he (the Prophet) had said before you came: If any one of you performs ablution, and does it well, and when he finishes the ablution, he utters the words: I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah; He has no associate, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the servant and His Messenger, all the eight doors of Paradise will be opened for him; he may enter (through) any of them.

      Muawiyah said: rabi’ah b. Yazid narrated this tradition to me from Abu Idris on the authority of ‘Uqbah b. ‘Amir.

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