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Yaghūth (Arabic "He Helps" يَغُوثَ) orJageth, if translated to English, was a deity or idol referred to in theQuran (71:23) .Jageth or Yaghuth was a righteous man who lived a few generations beforeNoah in Islam and after Adam. The Quran mentions him and 4 other idols who were righteous men but later worshipped by people who were deceived bySatan in Islam.They were possibly worshipped by Pre-Islamic Arabian tribes or inMesopotamia and Turkey.
These 5 idols were mentioned, when Noah preached about to worship the one true GodAllah, the people of Noah said to each other that they should not stop worshipping or forsake those 5 persons. Later, the people of Noah got destroyed by theGreat Flood.
as a god of the era of the Islamic prophetNoah:
And they say: Forsake not your gods, nor forsakeWadd, norSuwa', nor Yaghuth andYa'uq andNasr. (Qur'an 71:23)
Maulana Muhammad Ali comments:
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 in that of an eagle (Rz).
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