Yaghuth
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Yaghūth (Arabic "He Helps" يَغُوثَ) or Jageth, if translated to English, was a deity or idol referred to in the Quran (71:23). Jageth or Yaghuth was a righteous man who lived a few generations before Noah 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 by Satan in Islam. They were possibly worshipped by Pre-Islamic Arabian tribes or in Mesopotamia and Turkey.
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Yaghūth (Arabic "He Helps" يَغُوثَ) or Jageth, if translated to English, was a deity or idol referred to in the Quran (71:23). Jageth or Yaghuth was a righteous man who lived a few generations before Noah 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 by Satan in Islam. They were possibly worshipped by Pre-Islamic Arabian tribes or in Mesopotamia and Turkey.
These 5 idols were mentioned, when Noah preached about to worship the one true God Allah, 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 the Great Flood.