38. THE ANCESTORS OF OUR WAYS The story of idol-worship isn’t merely a story of bowing to the dolls humans carved with their own hands. It is about people’s stubborn misbeliefs. What the ancestors did was their own deed. There is no balance carried down. The tragedy or the lesson of this oft-repeated notion in the Quran isn’t about doll-worship either. It is about how people—when they can see something sensible with their own eyes—still refuse to believe in it. Still refuse to change. It is not just following the ways of our ancestors, but the ancestors of our own ways. Ever heard that the old is the enemy of the new? alustforlife.blogspot/2005/09/ways-of-our-ancestors-ancestors-of-our.html
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