From time immemorial, saintly figures were born for the guidance of the humankind who, by the power of their precept and practice, showed them the straight path of truth and righteousness. Nonetheless, their favors always encountered injustice from the human beings. They were not only persecuted by their opponents in the way that their message was neglected, their truthfulness was brought under doubt, their call was rejected and efforts were made to deter them from the right path by inflicting tortures on them; but also they were subjected to the injustice of their own followers, who later corrupted their teachings, introduced interpolations into their instructions, distorted their revealed books, and glorified their personalities to the extent that they raised them to the status of godhood godhead due to their excessive admiration for wonders. The injustice meted out by the first type of persecutors remained confined to their life span on the earth or even at most, it continued up to a few years further after their disappearance. However, the injustice of the second group continued for centuries to come and the same is still happening with many great men of God.
Almost all the righteous reformers sent so far on the planet dedicated their entire life into uprooting the so-called godly status of these false deities whom the human beings had started to worship as gods excluding Allah Almighty, the only God. But it has always been happening that after them their followers started to consider them as Gods or at least partners in godhead due to their ignorant beliefs. They were also made a part of those idols for smashing which they had invested all the labour and energy of their entire life.
As a matter of fact, the human being has been so distrustful of himself that he hardly believes in the possibility and the existence of sacred and angelic characteristics in the mortals. He has always been considering himself as a combination of weaknesses and base desires. His mind is often devoid of the greatest concept and belief that Allah Almighty has bestowed in his mortal existence the potential that might even elevate him to the position more glorious than that of the holy angels despite his being purely mortal and possessing mortal traits. That is the reason whenever a person placed himself in this world as a messenger of God, his fellow beings, first of all, considering him to be a normal human being like them, made of flesh and bone, declined to accept him as a pious man of God. When at last they acknowledged his duty dazzled by the observation of extraordinary qualities in him, they started to develop the concept that the being, possessing such unexceptional good attributes, might not be a mortal. Then a certain group raised him to the status of godhead, others invented the doctrine of personification that God transmigrated into him, while some others found in him divine attributes and godly authorities whereas some others thought that he was a son of God. (Praise and glory be to Him! (for He is) above what they attribute to Him!) (6:100)
