1.5 From Statues To Idols

Generations after generations, people were adding new things to what their fathers were doing. They went one step more and moved from just looking for blessings in the statues to actually worshipping them through prostration, invocating things, and sacrificing animals to them. Consequently, the statues were turned into idols that are worshipped besides ALLAH. The knowledge has gone and these generations of idolaters do not have any idea of the reason behind having these statues in their place of worship in he first place. (Step 3 implemented).
They began worshiping them as they had worshipped Allah before. They had many of these idols among which are 'Wadd', "Suwa', Yaghuth', 'Ya'uq', 'Nasr', etc. These are the names of some of their idols as mentioned the Holy Qur'an: "They (idolaters) have said: "you shall not leave your gods nor shall you leave Wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaguth, nor Ya'uq nor Nasr (Names of the idols)". (CH 71: 23).
Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased of them) explained this above verse this way: "Following upon the death of those righteous men, Satan inspired their people to erect statues in the places where they used to sit. They did this, but these statues were not worshipped until the coming generations deviated from the right way of life. Then, they worshipped them as their idols." The sons of Adam have, by worshiping these idols, disobeyed Allah and done the most evil of deeds that is idolatry (associating other things with Allah in worship).