The practice of symbolising attributes and knowledge as idols and pictures are so, as to have a greater reach and understanding. As a child (read the beginner), one can grasp better in forms rather than the abstract; as they grow (mentally and spiritually), and as their thirst for knowledge grows, they would endulge in such as would enable them to seek the supreme knowledge. The true seeker then is enlightened by THE TRUTH...
Idol worship and other such practices are like an attractive package for a good product.
Thus you see that Sanatana Dharma is a step by step process to know the supreme.
The end may be to reach the supreme in islam, but the crude method it preaches is fit only for primitives...
The manner in which you go about a job is more important thant the result... and that is Sanatana Dharma!
It is easy to say that somebody follows the supreme in its purest form, but that can be achieved only throught great mental control and practice.... and any muslim who claim that they do the above are pure.... pure hypocrites!
