Idolatry: The Unforgivable Sin
Turning away from God and diverting all attention to those He created is illogical and unscrupulous. If one does not give his attention to God and act solely according to those He created, God would crush that person. The goal there is to make it possible for that person to turn towards God.
A person who puts his trust in God, who submits to God would never ascribe any partners to God. If a person who has fallen ill says ‘ I will now go to the doctor’s, the doctor will give me a pill and that pill will heal me,” that person would be ascribing partners to God. One should say ‘I will go to the doctor’s and God will make the pill the doctor will prescribe instrumental and if God wills so, I will get better.”
It would not be compliant with the Qur’an for a person to be worried about the future. A person who worries about the future shows that he imagines that there is a force other than God forgetting that everything is under the command of God; and that would be idolatry. Idolatry is ascribing partners to God and is a grave sin.
They [some people] don't understand God’s laws; that’s why they are so worried about everything. They think that every object, every being in the world is independently capable. They wrongly think that cars, houses, medications, in short everything has a power that is independent from God. That’s why they are continuously suffering, continuously in pain. If they comprehended that there is only one God and only God has power, if they surrendered to God, they would have lived very comfortably.
The one you say you love is actually an image inside your brain. Who is the One Who creates them to the smallest detail? Who is the One Who makes you love and Who makes you speak? God is the One Who creates all these. I mean there is nothing that belongs to the person across from you. If you give your love to an imaginary idol instead of God, that would be the worst kind of deception: You would be deceiving yourself.
There are two kinds of idolatry. The first one is confessed idolatry. For instance, they build up an idol and worship it. That is confessed idolatry. And there is also covert idolatry. That is believing that others, someone or something other than God has power. For instance, it is believing that people have independent power. Actually God is the One Who makes everyone speak, He is the One Who makes everyone speak and do things.
