Peace Natu, Yes, you're right. A simple definition of idol worship is to believe that anything beside God can help us, or to hold something as more important to us than God. Thus if we hold our property (for example) as more important than God /or give our jobs more time and attention than God - we are committing idol worship. Unfortunately, the majority of people who believe in God commit this gross offense without even realizing it. The majority of those who believe in GOD do not do so without committing idol worship. This is why we note that one of the most important and most repeated commandments in the Quran is "O you who believe, you shall remember God frequently; glorify Him day and night." You shall remember your Lord within yourself, publicly, privately, and quietly, day and night; DO NOT BE UNAWARE If we love God the most, we strive to be reverent and remember Him alone frequently. However, since we're not immune from Satan and his desperate urge of claiming us, most of us fall into idol worship in one way or another and seeking or pleasing God alone simply becomes lip service. He said, "Since You have willed that I go astray, I will skulk for them on Your straight path. "I will come to them from before them, and from behind them, and from their right, and from their left, and You will find that most of them are unappreciative." Often times, I find myself "preoccupied" in this worldly life, thus distracted me from remembering God. Before I know it, Satan succeded in duping me, making my evil works pleasing to my eyes. O you who believe, do not be distracted by your money and your children from remembering GOD. Those who do this are the losers. The devil wants to provoke animosity and hatred among you through intoxicants and gambling, and to distract you from remembering GOD, and from observing the Contact Prayers (Salat). Will you then refrain? Yet the Most Gracious, by His infinite mercy inspired me to know my shortcomings and hereby I could immediately ask for forgiviness thereafter before it's too late. Idolworship is not limited in associate our loved ones with some kind of power. It could also be mean if we subconsciously think that they possess power to make us feel good, happy(benefit) or harm us OTHER THAN GOD. Since, God alone possess all power. For example, I have a cute child and a beautiful wife. If I preoccupied my mind and give them too much attention INSTEAD of the all powerful, eternal God, I thus commit Idolworship. O you who believe, your spouses and your children can be your enemies; beware. This Life is a test. The Human being will tested base on our own weakness. Thus, I think idolworship or associating any partners to God implies that God alone IS NOT ENOUGH to remember in our mind. Is GOD not sufficient for His servant? They frighten you with the idols they set up beside Him. Whomever GOD sends astray, nothing can guide him. May God protect us from worshiping idols. Recall that Abraham said, "My Lord, ?. protect me and my children from worshiping idols. Say, "My Contact Prayers (Salat), my worship practices, my life and my death, are all devoted absolutely to GOD alone, the Lord of the universe.He has no partner. This is what I am commanded to believe, and I am the first to submit." Say, "Shall I seek other than GOD as a lord, when He is the Lord of all things? No soul benefits except from its own works, and none bears the burden of another. Ultimately, you return to your Lord, then He informs you regarding all your disputes." God bless!