False Gods have always Become the Intermediaries between the man and true Message from God

The 'other gods' always act as curtains between the man and Divine message

The Divine laws given to mankind through the messengers of God were meant to create a direct relationship between God and man without any intermediary. Thus when we are reading the Quran, we are in fact personally in contact with god receiving His prescribed guidance. But the forces of exploitation always intervened between God and man. Such forces in the words of Quran are called ‘other gods’. Any law-making authority whose laws are contrary to or exceed the limits prescribed by the revealed fundamental principles, is described by the Holy Quran as ‘other gods’.

“ Or have they chosen gods from the earth; can they (false gods) cause the living objects to arise from the non-living? If they were in the heavens and the earth other gods besides God, there would have been disorder and confusion in both. But glory to God, the Lord of the throne of authority, (He is high) above what they attribute to Him.” (21:21-22)

Such other gods always intervened between man and God, and their whims and wishes acted as curtains between man and the light of divine message. The rays of light make it possible for us to distinguish the features and the exact location of objects around us. That is why the Quran itself is termed as Light:

“Surely the light has come to you from Allah in all forms of a perspicuous book.” (5:15)

The intermediaries between God and man always turned the divine message into an adulterated and unreal one. They mystified the human vision and stupefied the human intellect. With the appearance of the Quran, all these veils of the darkness disappeared and the curtains which stood between man and God, through ages were raised one by one. But again with the passage of time, the followers of Muhammad (Peace be upon him) turning to the footsteps of earlier nations, forsook the Divine message and the curtains once more fell and isolated man from God in human affairs. It is of utmost importance to explain the true nature of these attractive, ornamental and yet deceitful curtains which have kept the divine message hidden from the eyes of mankind through ages, and which ultimately turned the Muslims to follow the footsteps of earlier nations and forget the final and complete code of life given to them through the last messenger of God, Muhammad (Peace be upon him).