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*Surah Al-Anaam, Verse 75:*
وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُرِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ مَلَكُوتَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلِيَكُونَ مِنَ الْمُوقِنِينَ
Thus did we show Ibrahim (Abraham) the kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he be one of those who have Faith with certainty.
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Now comes the story of Abraham. He lived among the Chaldeans, who had great knowledge of the stars and heavenly bodies. But he got beyond that physical world and saw the real world behind. His ancestral idols meant nothing to him. That was the first step. But ALLĀH took him many degrees higher. ALLĀH showed him with certified the glorious behind the magnificent powers and laws of the physical universe.
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*Surah Al-Anaam, Verse 76:*
فَلَمَّا جَنَّ عَلَيْهِ اللَّيْلُ رَأَىٰ كَوْكَبًا قَالَ هَٰذَا رَبِّي فَلَمَّا أَفَلَ قَالَ لَا أُحِبُّ الْآفِلِينَ
When the night covered him over with darkness he saw a star. He said: "This is my lord." But when it set, he said: "I like not those that set."
#COMMENTARY
This show the stages of Abraham's enlightenment. It should not be supposed that he literally worshipped stars or heavenly bodies. Having seen through the folly of ancestral idol worship, he began to see the futility of worshiping distant beautiful things that shine, which the vulgar endue with a power which does not reside in them. A type of such is a star shinning in the darkness of the night, Superstition might read fortunes in it, but truer knowledge shows that it rises and sets according to laws whose author is ALLĀH (Sub-haanahu wata'aala). And its light is extinguished in the broader light of day: Its worship is therefore futile. It is not a Power, much less the Supreme Power.
According to some commentators the whole thrust of Abraham's reasoning in verses 76-78 is directed against the superstitious beliefs of his people and demonstrates the folly of worshiping stars and other heavenly bodies. As such his statements may be seen as premises of his arguments against Polytheism rather than as stages in his enlightenment.
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