Answering Questions Through The Holy Qur'an: Were al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat daughters of God? Did the Qur'an tell Muslims to worship them?

Were al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat daughters of God? Did the Qur'an tell Muslims to worship them?

53:19 So have you seen the Laat and the Uzza, 53:20 And Manaat, the third, the other one? 53:21 Is for you the male and for Him the female? 53:22 This, then, is a division unfair. 53:23 They are not except names which you have named, you and your forefathers, for which Allah has not sent down any authority. They do not follow except assumption and what their souls desire. And certainly the guidance has come to them from their Lord. 53:24 Or is for man what he wishes?

(Some non-Muslims say that al-lat is His wife, and some others say that is His daughter, but the Qur’an explicitly says that God has not taken a wife (72:3), and God has not taken daughters (16:57), and al-lat/laat is referred as a name invented by people (53:23))(Allah knows best)

72:3 And that He - Exalted is the Majesty of our Lord - He has not taken a wife or a son,

6:100 And they make the jinn partners with Allah though He has created them, and they falsely attribute sons and daughters to Him without knowledge. Glorified is He and Exalted above what they attribute. 6:101 Originator of the heavens and the earth. How can He have a son while He does not have a companion, and He created everything? And He is All-Knower of everything.

16:57 And they assign daughters to Allah. Glory be to Him, and for them is what they desire.

112:1 Say, "He is Allah, the One. 112:2 Allah, the Eternal, the Absolute. 112:3 He neither begets nor is begotten. 112:4 And nor is there to Him any equivalent."

17:111 And say, "All Praise is for Allah, the One Who has not taken a son and Who has no partner in the dominion nor any protector out of weakness. And magnify Him with all magnificence."

19:35 It is not for Allah to take a son. Glory be to Him, when He decrees a matter, then He only says to it, "Be" and it is.

23:91 Allah has not taken any son, nor is there any god with Him. Then surely each god would have taken away what he created, and surely some of them would have overpowered others. Glory be to Allah above what they attribute.

4:48 Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives other than that for whom He wills. And whoever associates partners with Allah, then has certainly fabricated a tremendous sin.

5:18 And the Jews and the Christians said "We are the children of Allah and His beloved." Say, "Then why does He punish you for your sins?" Nay, you are human beings from among those He created. He forgives whom He wills and punishes whom He wills. And for Allah is the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, and to Him is the final return.

9:30 And the Jews said, "Uzair is son of Allah." And the Christians said, "Messiah is son of Allah." That is their saying with their mouths, they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before. (May) Allah destroy them. How deluded are they.

(Jews and Christians are the pagan ones. According to Verse 9:30, the Judeo-Christian concept “son of God” is not from God, but from those who disbelieved before)(Allah knows best)

17:40 Then, has your Lord chosen sons (for) you and He has taken from (among) the Angels daughters? Indeed, you surely say a grave word.

(The Word “Allah” has no gender nor plural in Arabic, because God is One God (2:163), and there is no any equivalent to God (112:4). But some people wrongly say that “al-Lat” is a feminine form of that Word)(“Allah” and “ilah” (literally “the God” and “god”), in the Qur’an, use the same Semitic root word than “eloah”, “elah”, “el” and “elohim” in the Bible)(Allah revealed the Torah, the Gospel and the Qur’an. Notice how similar are “elah” in Aramaic (the language of the original Gospel), “eloah” in Hebrew (the language of the original Torah), and “ilah” in Arabic (the original language of the Qur’an)(Allah knows best)

4:46 Among the Jews are those who distort words from their places and they say, "We hear and disobey" and "Hear but be not heard” and "Raina", twisting their tongues and defaming the religion. And if they had said, "We hear and obey" and "Hear and look at us”, it would surely have been better for them and more suitable. [And] but Allah cursed them for their disbelief, so they believe not, except for a few.

(Words other than “Allah” might have a pagan origin; for example, “God” in English: according to the article “God (word)” in wikipedia, “a significant number of scholars have connected this root (“Gaut”) with names of three related Germanic tribes: the Geats, the Goths, and the Gutar. These names may be derived from an eponymous chieftain Gaut, who was subsequently deified. He also sometimes appears in early medieval sagas as a name of Odin or one of his descendants … Some variant forms of the name Odin such as the Lombardic Godan may point in the direction that the Lombardic form actually comes from Proto-Germanic gudanaz. Wodanaz or Wodinaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of a god of Germanic paganism, known as Odin in Norse mythology, Woden in Old English, Wodan or Wotan in Old High German and Godan in the Lombardic language. Godan was shortened to God over time and was adopted/retained by the Germanic peoples of the British isles as the name of their deity, in lieu of the Latin word Deus used by the Latin speaking Christian church, after conversion to Christianity”)(In regard to the word “deus”, (“god” in Latin language), according to the article “deus” in wiktionary(dot)org, deus is “from Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European deywós. Cognates with Ancient Greek “Zeús”, and with Persian “div (demon)”, among other words. So, the word “deus” and its derivatives (e.g. dieu in french, dios in Spanish, deus in Portuguese, dio in Italian, zeu in Romanian, etc.) are related to Greek mythology (“Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter” (source: article Zeus in wikipedia))(The words “deus / dios...” are very similar to “theos” (“god” in Greek language), though dictionaries suspiciously deny that “theos” is from the same source)(Allah knows best)

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Were al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat daughters of God? Did the Qur'an tell Muslims to worship them?

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