WHY IDOL WORSHIP IS FORBIDDEN???
Many of my non-muslim friend ask me if you muslims consider idol worship a big sin then why do you bow before kaaba. Isn't this a man-made object I said, yes it is. First let me differentiate associating partners with God(Shirk) and idol-worship. Idol worship can be done by those who believe in one god by making the idol of that one god. Associating partners with one God(Shirk) is not related to the topic but I will cover both of it here. I personally believe the reason idol worship is forbidden because it’s a symbol of materialism.The idol-worshippers make god out of everything for their personal motive or for them it’s a money-making machine. Nevertheless, if it wasn’t then God would have allowed muslims to make a replica of kaaba and bow down to it wherever they were. Today, we muslims take pride in calling ourselves as a staunch believer of monotheism but we fail to realise that just bowing down five times a day is not just what God wants us to do. The so called scholars of Islam with their egoistic motives had indeed made muslims to worship idols and that idol is the book they write & ask them to follow by claiming that they are only rightly guided ones. I don’t blame them alone as in the matter of religion majority of muslims blindly follow whatever their religious leader tells them but when it comes to worldly matters they are quick in raising their eyebrows whenever the issue is not in their favor. This is what let me believe that majority of muslims worship their leaders and their books besides God & the best example is the verse of the Quran itself which says that when God said to angels to bow before Adam(2:34) remember bow & not to worship here as it stands for obeying the command of God here & shirk is proven in the verse(QV9:31) that christians and jews worshipped their monks & leaders (9:31) by obeying blindly whatever they said to them. So now I hope my muslim brothers & sister got my philosophy of prohibition by Allah to bow before any kind of object except Kaaba. Hence, my dear muslim brothers & sisters ask yourself what you are worshipping Allah or your religious leaders & their books.