You're right. But within Islamic religion, we actually try to abstain from anything that may resemble idol worship. The prophet was actually the one who said that people had to go from worshiping idols -- including him -- to worshiping God.
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Related It's so amazing to see people from all different countries worshiping one God in one place, LAUREN BROWN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respe... HAKEEM OLAJUWON We're worshiping on this side and they worship inside. TIM WHITE If we don't need any Idol to worship God, then we don't need any religion to worship God. YASMEEN KHAN Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, th... YUSUF ISLAM Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit... PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God. JIM GEORGE Ali was actually able to fool some people into thinking that Foreman was actually a white man. LEON GAST People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000. DOUG ADAMS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. KEVIN CORRIGAN Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk... SUGAR RAY LEONARD Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentiall... TIMOTHY J. KELLER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when posi... JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping ... JEFFREY SATINOVER old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history AMY TAN You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER Actually, most of the people who go to see the contest are not from here, ARETHA FRANKLIN We must move from denigration to integration if we are to achieve a peaceful world. DAVID FRISKO TEACHER The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, ... C.S. LEWIS Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, t... C.S. LEWIS That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride c... C.S. LEWIS THAT you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and sexual immoral... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness. BUDDHA Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was ... MARK TWAIN The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to ev... MOSES God's everywhere. So remember when you go to the toilet not to laugh. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has
chosen not to accept it. They hav... LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc... LEWIS N. ROE The dearest idol I have known, Whatever that idol be,
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no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a cho... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware ... HUBERT REEVES Jerry Falwell said that the reason that September 11th happened, the reason that God allowed it to h... LEWIS BLACK How glad the heathens would have been,
That worship idols, wood and stone,
If they the book Go... ISAAC WATTS I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people... DARREN ARONOFSKY That was horrendous. That one drive may have been the worst I have ever seen. I think we had 10 miss... JIM HASLETT A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart ... ELIZABETH GEORGE We saw the White House from the outside, but to actually be able to go inside and meet the president... LEE HUMPHREY It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. ARTHUR C. CLARKE It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him. ARTHUR C. CLARKE It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. ARTHUR C. CLARKE From Day One when we recruited him, my job was to get him to the NBA. And he has said all along that... ERNIE KENT If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ... LILLIAN S. VILORIA He actually felt as if God had sent the retriever to intrigue him, to remind him that the world was ... DEAN KOONTZ Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol... MATTHEW HAMMOND Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I was going to tackle him. But the ball was right there. I wanted to try and get that touchdown back... DANNY YOUNG Yoga did not just help me with my body, I became fitter from within. It helped me to focus better. I... SHILPA SHETTY Don't try to focus in something within itself is a failURE. DEYTH BANGER Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gai... SADHU SUNDAR SINGH We're not force-feeding anything into our lineup, ... Everyone's worried because we haven't signed a... DOUG WILSON Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he'... ART ALEXAKIS My people y'all don't have to be omniscient (possessing complete knowledge of everything in the univ... NICNICLOUISIANA That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just... IAN STEWART God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch... NORAH JONES We have inspectors that are ready to go, to be on sight, right now, to actually go out and do the in... HERBERT MITCHELL Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from histo... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from histo... STING [They] were just praying for him and asking God to deliver him from the spirit that he had, ... The ... DAVID HEMPHILL The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were... ROY MOORE It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. WILLIE NELSON
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MAHERSHALA ALI People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities. MAHERSHALA ALI In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It'... MAHERSHALA ALI At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the ... MAHERSHALA ALI I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, dep... MAHERSHALA ALI Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It'... MAHERSHALA ALI In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is diff... MAHERSHALA ALI I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the ri... MAHERSHALA ALI You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse wor... MAHERSHALA ALI I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to wh... MAHERSHALA ALI There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of t... MAHERSHALA ALI 'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have... MAHERSHALA ALI The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility. MAHERSHALA ALI It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so i... MAHERSHALA ALI Understand that we are all co-creators of our respective destinies. MAHERSHALA ALI Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you hav... MAHERSHALA ALI To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always ... MAHERSHALA ALI Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?'... MAHERSHALA ALI Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved fo... MAHERSHALA ALI Family are the people that can hurt you the most. MAHERSHALA ALI I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playin... NADIA ALI I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you l... NADIA ALI