POLYTHEISM IS AN UNFORGIVABLE SIN (VERSE NO. 116)

      In the same chapter, the same matter and meaning was brought with a little literally difference in verse No. 48:

      Allah will not forgive that partners be associated with Him, but forgives whatever under that for whom He will. And he who associates any with Allah, has indeed forged a great sin.''

      Sins are similar to diseases by nature. As far as the sickness has not attacked the central point, and the capital of the body, which we take it to be the brain, our natural defensive power of the body may overcome the illness. But when the microbes manage to attack and vanquish the original point of resistance, the patient has no other way but to die! So is the blasphemy of polytheism which will disable the most sensitive point or centre of the soul, rendering it motionless.

      The foolishness of puting up God's creatures in rivalry against Him, and associating partners with the creator of the universe, will attack the source and essence of our spiritual life.

      But if the blasphemy is due to ignorance, and is followed by sincere repentance and amendment, God's Mercy is never closed. We know that almost all the foremost Muslims were polytheists, heathens, and idolaters. But through the guidance of Mohammad the Messenger of God, they sincerely repented, and amended themselves, and testified the oneness of God.