There may be some foundation of truth in the story that Amr travelled in Syria and had brought back from there the cults of the goddesses ʻUzzāʼ and Manat, and had combined it with that of Hubal, the idol of the Khuza ' a.

In Islamism Hubal has been used as a symbol of modern forms of " idol worship ".

Their chief, Amr ibn Lahi al-Khuza ' i brought an idol named Hubal from Syria to the sanctuary called the Kaaba, treating the safety of Hubal as the means of continuing his rule.

Addressing an idol, Abu Bakr said " O my God, I am in need of beautiful clothes ; bestow them on me ".

He lifted a stone, and addressing an idol said " Here I am aiming a stone ; if you are a god protect yourself ".

" Marathoner Johnny Kelley, who first met his idol at the 1936 Olympics, said that while Nurmi appeared cold to him at first, the two chatted for quite a while after Nurmi had asked for his name: " He grabbed ahold of me — he was so excited.

After the incident of the idol wreckage, the people of Abraham, while having admitted their fault, are said to have ignored Abraham's warning and instead retaliated by throwing him into a fire and exclaiming " protect your gods ".

A story follows about a Jew who showed his contempt for the god by wiping his behind on its nose after defecating in the temple and who was praised for his piety by the acolytes of the god who said: no man has ever before served this idol thus.

He sang at the " Latin Grammy Celebra José José " ceremony and is said to have made one of the best tributes to his idol.

" Feller appeared in the May 12, 1941, edition of Life, which said: "... he is unquestionably the idol of several generations of Americans, ranging in age from 7 to 70.

Nehemiah 9: 18 " even when they made an idol shaped like a calf and said, ' This is your god who brought you out of Egypt!

It is said that the three foot idol of Lord Vinayaka emerged by itself, attaching to a big rock.

Clogher is said to have been the location of a gold pagan idol named Cermand Cestach.

He has said that his idol is Madonna.

According to al-Mālikī she was said to have been accompanied in her travels by what the Arabs called an " idol ", possibly an icon of the Virgin or one of the Christian saints, but certainly not something associated with Jewish religious customs.

It is also said that when this idol reaches the lake the whole world will be destroyed.

An obituary said he " ranked alongside Don Bradman and the race horse Phar Lap as an Australian sporting idol, but his fame at home proved less durable than theirs, perhaps because he went on to become a politician.

Then Lord Rama was advised to worship Shiv linga and he is said to have constructed the original linga of sand, after getting tired of waiting for his brother, Lakshman to bring an idol.

The idol of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita is said to have been installed by Jambuvantha.

About 30 km from Tumkur in Koratagere taluk there is a famous Lakshmi Temple whose idol is said to be self originated, there will be special poojas which will be performed on Fridays.

It has been said by ancestors that the " Lingam " ( the statue of Lord Shiva ) that is present in this temple was left by a Chola king when he was carrying this idol from Kasi.

: Mumbo Jumbo is a noun and is the name of a grotesque idol said to have been worshipped by some tribes.

The trophy was presented by Andrés Gómez Horna said that " Gomez has been like an idol for us Peruvians ,".

It is said that the legendary Chaos Emeralds rest here, and so did the hero of our story, once upon a time before he met his speedy blue idol.

Jainpete, ruins of Jain Basadi and palace, Kalkuda and Jattinga Daivaas ( Worshiped by the then Jains ) can be seen here and Jain community is not living, which is said to be due to the curse of Devi to the bad attitude of earlier Jains and their cruel Ruler Veeravarma who turned the idol from west to east.

One day Sri Rayaru appeared in King's dream and said " Sri Sujnanendra Teertharu is going to consecrate myself in the form of an idol at Nanjanagudu.

Set centuries after Bran's death he appears as an idol worshipped by the surviving Picts in which his soul is said to be resident.

People have taken God's invisible image and made him into an idol.

Twenty world records have been set at the stadium, including John Landy's records on the 1, 500 m and the mile, Nurmi's record on the 3, 000 m and Zátopek's record on the 10, 000 m. In fiction, Nurmi appears in William Goldman's 1974 novel Marathon Man as the idol of the protagonist, who aims to become a greater runner than Nurmi.

Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek ( a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon ) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ' Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.

Saul tries to have David killed during the night, but Michal helps him escape and tricks his pursuers by using a household idol to make it seem that David is still in bed.

Like literal adultery it does include the idea of someone blinded by infatuation, in this case for an idol: ' How I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts.

Fragments of vases, tools, and the head of an idol have been found on Mount Chorissa.

Some of these, most notably the Seventh-day Adventist Church, have traditionally held that the apostate church formed when Bishop of Rome began to dominate and brought heathen corruption and allowed pagan idol worship and beliefs to come in, and formed the Roman Catholic Church, which teaches others traditions over Scripture, and to rest from their work on Sunday, instead of Sabbath, which is not in keeping with Scripture.

" Dolly " may be a corruption of " idol " or may have come directly from the Greek word eidolon ( apparition ); that which represents something else.

Her son, Cristian, is a teen idol singer across Latin America and the United States, She, and Christian's father, Manuel Valdés, have never married.

Its first manifestation ( often referred to as matinee idol ) may have been Rudolph Valentino, whose good looks and winning way with women featured heavily in such silent films as The Sheik.

This has resulted in players being voted out of the game without playing the idol, or playing the idol when they would have otherwise been safe from the vote.

* If a contestant wants to play the hidden immunity idol, this must be done after the votes have been cast but before they are read.

It could easily have been seen, by the most casual observer, that if Douglas was the idol of the democracy, Lincoln was the popular hero of the Republican party, which was still in its swaddling clothes.

The magazine was born in 1971, out of the desire to have a teen idol type magazine for African Americans.

Ginsberg intends that the characters he portrays in Part I be understood to have been sacrificed to this idol.

* The first of the Ten Commandments: I am the Lord your God, You shall have no other gods before me, You shall not make for yourself an idol.

He is reported to have run away from home at age 14 to follow his idol, singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt around Texas.

Understanding can be arrived at variously — some have found the Mihrab, others the idol.

Rudolf Simek says that hörgr may have originally exclusively meant " holy place ", whereas the Old English noun hearg could mean " holy grove " and / or " temple, idol ".

According to Wagner, the basic methodology is to use “ spiritual mapping ” to locate areas, demon-possessed persons, occult practitioners such as witches and FreeMasons, or occult idol objects like statues of Catholic saints, which are then named and fought, using methods ranging from intensive prayer to burning with fire, “ they must burn the idols … the kinds of material things that might be bringing honor to the spirits of darkness: pictures, statues, Catholic saints, Books of Mormon … and what have you ….

The accounts of Micah's idol also include reference to a Jonathan son of Gershom as being a priest, and although the masoretic text seems to avoid the implication that non-Aaronim could be priests by describing this particular Gershom as a son of Manasseh ( מנשה ), this appears to have been distorted ; the letter nun ( נ ) appears here in superscript, suggesting that the text originally described this Gershom as the one that was a son of Moses ( משה ).

The Old Testament restrictions against the production of graven ( an idol or fetish carved in wood or stone ) images ( see also Idolatry and Christianity ) may also have constrained Christians from producing art.