Allah also relates about His Khalil Ibrahim (peace be upon him), saying: And recite to them the story of Ibrâhîm (Abraham). When he said to his father and his people: "What do you worship?" They said: "We worship idols, and to them we are ever devoted." He said: "Do they hear you, when you call on (them)? "Or do they benefit you or do they harm (you)?" They said: "(Nay) but we found our fathers doing so." until His Saying: Except him who brings to Allâh a clean heart [clean from Shirk (polytheism) and Nifâq (hypocrisy)]."
Also, Allah says, in the story of the Children of Israel and their worship of the calf: And the people of Mûsâ (Moses) made in his absence, out of their ornaments, the image of a calf (for worship). It had a sound (as if it was mooing). Did they not see that it could neither speak to them nor guide them to the way? And He says inSurah TaHaabout the same story: Did they not see that it could not return them a word (for answer), and that it had no power either to harm them or to do them good?
The meaning of this is to question what those people did, did they lose their minds to the extent that they worshipped a calf that cannot speak to them nor benefit, harm, or guide them to goodness! This makes it clear that it is Allah (may He be Praised) Who has the power to benefit or harm; Who hears the Du'a' and responds to the distressed, when they call on Him; Who speaks, if He so wills. These are among the Attributes of Perfection, which the True God to be worshipped must have, unlike the idols and other objects of worship that cannot hear, bring benefit, inflict harm, respond to, or guide those who call upon them.
How is it possible then to worship others beside the True King, the AllHearing, the Responsive, the Giver of