ADNAN OKTAR: In verse 53 of Surah Hud, God says, “They said, ‘Hud, you have not brought us any clear sign. We will not forsake our gods for what you say. We do not believe you’.”
What are those gods? A symbolic system that establishes national unity. They have such a system of idols in Great Britain, for instance. The people gather around them. They make these tiny idols. They make idols out of people. Then someone sees one of those idols and goes crazy. He throws himself down on the ground and starts shouting and screaming. Not because it is so important, but because they believe that is how to worship idols. This is a kind of worship going on. Someone comes out and people throw themselves on the ground and start shouting with all their might because an idol has arrived. They have idolized that person. But such people are in fact just helpless nothings with nothing special about them. But since that is demonstrated as the way to greet an idol, it makes people