with the Supreme Being in the direction and governance of the universe, they held the
belief that their deities possessed the power to do them good or harm, or give them life or
death.
Idolatry in Arabia had reached its peak, where every region and every clan or rather every
house had a separate deity of its own. Three hundred and sixty idols had been installed
within the Ka'ba and its courtyard - the house built by Abraham ('alaihi salaam) for the
worship of the One and only God. The Arabs actually paid divine honors not merely to sculp-
tured idols but venerated all types of stones and fetish---angels, jinn and stars were all their
deities. They believed that the angels were daughters of God and the jinn His partners in
divinity and thus both enjoyed supernatural powers whose mollification was essential for
their well-being.