And they say: Forsake not your gods, nor forsakeWadd Wadd ( ar, وَدّ) (Ancient South Arabian script: 𐩥𐩵) is a pre-Islamic Arabian god. He was the national god of the Minaeans of South Arabia, and the snake was associated with him. It is also called Waddum and Wadd'ab. In Islamic trad ..., nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth andYa'uq According to the Qur'an, Yaʿūq ( ar, يعوق) was a deity worshipped in the days of Noah. A temple dedicated to Rahmanan and named after Ya'uq is mentioned in South Arabian inscriptions as "mkrbn yʿwq". And they say: Forsake not your gods, ...and Nasr. (Qur'an The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , sing. ...71:23)
The names of the idols given here are those which existed in Arabia in the Prophet's time, and hence some critics call it an anachronism. ..According to IʿAb, the idols of Noah's people were worshipped by the Arabs,The temple dedicated to Suwāʿ was demolished on the orders of Muhammad, in the Raid of Amr ibn al-As, in January 630 AD, 8AH, 9th month, of the Islamic Calendar.Wadd Wadd ( ar, وَدّ) (Ancient South Arabian script: 𐩥𐩵) is a pre-Islamic Arabian god. He was the national god of the Minaeans of South Arabia, and the snake was associated with him. It is also called Waddum and Wadd'ab. In Islamic trad ...being worshipped byKalb The Banu Kalb ( ar, بنو كلب) was an Arab tribe which mainly dwelt in the desert between northwestern Arabia and central Syria. The Kalb was involved in the tribal politics of the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire, possibly as earl ..., Suwāʿ by Hudhail, Yaghūth by Murād, Yaʿūq byHamadān Hamadan () or Hamedan ( fa, همدان, ''Hamedān'') ( Old Persian: Haŋgmetana, Ecbatana) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. At the 2019 census, its population was 783,300 in 230,775 families. The majority of people living in H ...and Nasr by Ḥimyar ( B. 65:lxxi, 1). The commentators say that Wadd was worshipped in the form of a man, Suwāʿ in that of a woman, Yaghūth in that of a lion, Yaʿūq in that of a horse and Nasr in that of an eagle ( Rz).
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