Alims
Alims They take their priests and their anchorites (Alims & Ulamas) to be their lords in substitute of Allah and (they take as their Lord) Christ the son of Mary; Yet they were commanded to worship but one Allah: there is no god but He. Quran – 9 : 31 Allah says in the Quran, the Christians and Jews have made their Alims and Ulamas and Jesus, Allah (their Gods). When this verse was revealed - Athee ibn Hathim was a Christian who had come with a large group of Christians and had embraced Islam. When this above Verse was revealed, he came to the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) and said: "Ya Rasoolullah, at no time have we worshipped our Priests and Monks (alims and Ullamas); then why is Allah saying so ???" To this Prophet (s.a.w) said : "Do you take your Alims words when they say a thing is halaal?" To this Hathim (r.a) said: "Yes" – Then the Prophet (s.a.w) said : "Do you take the words of your Priests when th...