Al-An'aam (The Cattle)

Verse 136

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    136. "And they (the polytheists) assigned to Allah out of what He has created of tilth and cattle, a portion, and said: 'This is for Allah', according to their assertion, 'And this is for our associates.' Then what is for their associates does not reach Allah, and what is for Allah reaches their associates. (How) evil is the judgment that they make!"

    The statements and decisions of those who go out of the path of prophets' training and enter the land of imagination are imaginary and without logic. They consider themselves the possessors of everything, and set divisions between them.

    Once they know sons as their own share and daughters as Allah’s share:

    "What! for you the male and for Him the females." (Surah An-Najm No. 53 verse 21).

    And another time, according to their imagination, they divide tilth and cattle. The verse says:

    "And they (the polytheists) assigned to Allah out of what He has created of tilth and cattle, a portion, and said: 'This is for Allah according to their assertion, 'And this is for our associates.'

    Then what is for their associates does not reach Allah, and what is for Allah reaches their associates. ..."

    Polytheists imagined that the share of their idols was unchangeable. Therefore, they spent it upon idol temples and the servants therein; but when the money of expenditure was insufficient, they expended the share of God for idol-temples, for the reason that the God of the skies was free from want. They expended it neither for infants, nor for the poor, nor for guests.

    "... (How) evil is the judgment that they make!"

    They judge badly, because they consider their idols prior to God. They do something that is neither legal nor religious. And, which judgment is more indecent and more shameful than this that a person supposes a worthless piece of wood or stone higher than the Creator of the world of existence? Can a degradation of thought worse than this be considered?