Deviations from monotheism stem from a lack of understanding and appreciation of God's names and attributes.

There is an important and vital relationship between this

concept of Allah’s names and attributes and the previous two

concepts (the belief that God is the Sole Creator and Sustainer of all

Creation and the belief that Allah must be the only object of

worship). One could argue that deviations with respect to

monotheism are rooted in a failure to understand and appreciate the

names and attributes of Allah as well as their uniqueness. If one

honestly recognized and understood the names and attributes of

Allah, one would never have any desire to worship or submit to

anything other than Allah himself.

From the history of humankind3, it can be argued that it is

innate in humans that they would want to worship. They want to have

a god that they can worship and adore. They know that there must be

something special and great about that thing which they humble

themselves to. However, so many of them put their hopes, trust,

dreams and aspirations in things that are simply not deserving of

such—whether it be forces of nature, inanimate objects , other humans, materialism, nations, race,

whatever. They force themselves

to believe that these false objects of worship can bring about what

they hope for and what they are dreaming of. In other words, they

begin to give their false objects of worship the attributes of God.

Instead of turning to God and knowing God by His attributes—and

then realizing that He is the One they are truly looking for—they turn

to other objects of worship, love and adoration. Due to this, they stray

very far from the straight path and from their true God .

In numerous places, Allah speaks about such gross errors.

Upon closer inspection, it can be noted that the source of their errors

is incorrect belief about the attributes of those that they turn to while

ignoring the attributes that reside with Allah .

In reality, it is Allah who hears, Allah who responds, Allah

who gives, Allah who is in control, Allah who is the just and the judge,

Allah who creates, sustains, gives, recreates and so forth. In

sum, if one truly knows the names and attributes of Allah, one would

never turn to worship anyone or anything but Him. None of those

false objects of worship are deserving of worship. By worshipping

them and seeking them, humans are doing nothing but debasing

themselves. Worse of all, they are ignoring Allah, equating partners

with Him, earning His wrath and preparing for themselves an evil

end.

See you in the next blog to complete the book.

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A book for calling people to Islam in English is the book .

"What is Islam?" by Jamaal Zarabozo