The religion essentially is dedicated to God alone without associate or equal .. God Almighty sent His messengers all over history in order to guide people to this fact: that God is One and there is no god besides Him, and that there will be the Next Life.
Then Satan worked to let people fall in the idolatry: that they - in stead of glorifying God - they started to glorify the messenger sent by God .. that is by the enthusiasm about the person of the messenger or the apostle.
That is because Satan knew if people fall in the idolatry, they will lose in the Next Life.
Therefore, the messenger comes to guide people to glorify God alone .. while Satan wants them to glorify the messenger himself (and the members of his family: like his mother Virgin Mary, or his daughter Fatima, or his wife Rachel ..etc.)
Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus, Fatima is the daughter of Prophet Mohammed, and Rachel is the wife of Prophet Jacob: Israel.
So God - be glorified - warned people in the Quran that they should not fall in such enthusiasm which lead them to the idolatry or associating such apostles and their family members together with God:
Quran 4: 171, which means:
(People of the Book [: the Gospel], do not exaggerate in your religion nor say aught concerning God save the truth.
The Messiah: Jesus the son of Mary was but a messenger of God, and His "word", that He cast to Mary and a "spirit" [coming] from His [neighborhood],
so believe in God and [all] His messengers.
Say not "Trinity"; desist [from such words], it will be better for you; for God is One God; Far Exalted is He above having any son.
To Him belong all the [cosmic destructive factors] in the [gaseous] heavens, and [the sudden destructive factors] on earth.
God suffices for a One Who records your acts.)
More explanation is in the link:
http://quran-ayat.com/pret/4.htm#a4_171
quran-ayat.com/pret/4.htm#a4_171
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SECOND:
Therefore, in the aya above, God - be glorified - warned the associaters, particularly those Christians who associate Jesus Christ and his mother: that they associate them with God Almighty, by ascribing Jesus as the son of God, while he is only the son of man.
And if they do not refrain from their big crime of ascribing a son to God or saying He is part of a Trinity, that God will punish them by many kinds of punishment from the sky or heaven, and from the earth below them.
Then Satan worked to let people fall in the idolatry: that they - in stead of glorifying God - they started to glorify the messenger sent by God .. that is by the enthusiasm about the person of the messenger or the apostle.
That is because Satan knew if people fall in the idolatry, they will lose in the Next Life.
Therefore, the messenger comes to guide people to glorify God alone .. while Satan wants them to glorify the messenger himself (and the members of his family: like his mother Virgin Mary, or his daughter Fatima, or his wife Rachel ..etc.)
Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus, Fatima is the daughter of Prophet Mohammed, and Rachel is the wife of Prophet Jacob: Israel.
So God - be glorified - warned people in the Quran that they should not fall in such enthusiasm which lead them to the idolatry or associating such apostles and their family members together with God:
Quran 4: 171, which means:
(People of the Book [: the Gospel], do not exaggerate in your religion nor say aught concerning God save the truth.
The Messiah: Jesus the son of Mary was but a messenger of God, and His "word", that He cast to Mary and a "spirit" [coming] from His [neighborhood],
so believe in God and [all] His messengers.
Say not "Trinity"; desist [from such words], it will be better for you; for God is One God; Far Exalted is He above having any son.
To Him belong all the [cosmic destructive factors] in the [gaseous] heavens, and [the sudden destructive factors] on earth.
God suffices for a One Who records your acts.)
More explanation is in the link:
http://quran-ayat.com/pret/4.htm#a4_171
quran-ayat.com/pret/4.htm#a4_171
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SECOND:
Therefore, in the aya above, God - be glorified - warned the associaters, particularly those Christians who associate Jesus Christ and his mother: that they associate them with God Almighty, by ascribing Jesus as the son of God, while he is only the son of man.
And if they do not refrain from their big crime of ascribing a son to God or saying He is part of a Trinity, that God will punish them by many kinds of punishment from the sky or heaven, and from the earth below them.