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According to theQur'an,Yaʿūq (Arabic:يعوق) orJawc/Jawk/Jawkk, if translated to English, was an idol worshipped in the days ofNoah. A synagogue dedicated toRahmanan named Ya'uq is mentioned in aSouth Arabian inscription as "mkrbn yʿwq".[1]
And they say: Forsake not your gods, nor forsakeWadd, norSuwa', norYaghuth and Ya'uq andNasr. (Qur'an 71:23)
Maulana Muhammad Ali adds the following commentary on the passage:
The names of the idols given here are those which existed in Arabia inthe Prophet's time, and hence some critics call it an anachronism. [...] According toIʿAb, the idols of Noah's people were worshipped by the Arabs,Wadd being worshipped byKalb,Suwāʿ byHudhail,Yaghūth byMurād, Yaʿūq byHamadān andNasr byḤimyar (B. 65:lxxi, 1). The commentators say that Wadd was worshipped in the form of a man, Suwāʿ in that of a woman, Yaghūth in that of a lion, Yaʿūq in that of a horse and Nasr is that of an eagle (Rz).[2]
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