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Muslims are forbidden to take as protectors other than God:
Say: Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?'
Say: God', Say:' Do you then take for protectors other than Him, such as have no power either for good or for harm to themselves?'' 13: 16
Muslims are forbidden to take each others as lords:
Say: that we worship none but God, that we associate no partners with Him, that we do not take from among ourselves lords and patrons other than God.' 3: 64
The Qur'an forbids Muslims to take the messengers of God and the angels as lords:
And he does not command you to take the angels and the apostles as lords. Would he command you to disbelieve after you became Muslims?' 3: 80
Christians, according to the Qur'an, take Gabriel for the Holy Ghost and associate him with Christ and God in a Trinity. Jews and Christian have taken their rabies and their clergy as their lords. Such a practice is not permitted in Islam:
They took their rabbis and their monks as lords beside God, and the Messiah-son-of-Mary, but they were not commanded except to worship one God, there is no god but He. Far away is His glory from what they associate (with Him).' 9: 31
The idea of taking prophets and angels as lords, as Christians do, is denied in Islam:
It is not permitted for a man, to whom is given the Scriptures and wisdom, to say: Be my worshippers rather than God's', but be worshippers of Him.' 3: 79
Nor would he (the Prophet) instruct you to take angels and prophets for lords, would he bid you to disbelief after you became Muslims?' 3: 80
Muslims are strictly forbidden to take Satan as a protector and lord:
"Whoever takes Satan as a protector, forsaking God, he has suffered a manifest loss. Satan makes them promises and builds for them false desires, but Satan's promises are nothing but deception.' 4: 119- 120
The Qur'an constantly denies the Muslims to take any other thing as lords and protectors beside God:
There are men who take others besides God as equal with God; they love them as they should love God. But those who believe are stronger in their love for God.' 2: 165
The parable of those who take protectors other than God is that of the spider who builds for itself a house: but surely the weakest of houses is the spider's house, if they only new.' 29: 41
Muslims are forbidden to take for protectors other than God
