...confifted in worfhipping the fixed ftars and planets, and the angels, and their images, which they honoured as inferior deities, and whofe interceffion they begged as their mediators with God. For they acknowledged one fupreme God, the creator and Lord of the univerfe, whom they called Allah...

...early religion of the Arabs was a kind of Sabeanism and chiefly consisted in worshiping the fixed stars and planets and the angels and their images, which they honored as inferior deities, and whose intercession they begged as their mediators with God." This worship of the heavenly bodies is...