That indeed were an unfair division! They are but names which ye have named, ye and your fathers, for which God hath revealed no warrant. In their place, Gabriel revealed a new passage (which still exists in the Quran to this day) condemning their worship ( Qur'an 53:19-23):Īnd Manat, the third, the other? Are yours the males and His the females? However, Gabriel then appeared to him and rebuked him, telling him that these verses came not from God but rather from Satan. The people of Mecca were most pleased to hear that Muhammad had approved of the worship of the daughters of Allah in his revelation. The implication is that they are able to rise up to Allah. It does not appear elsewhere in the Qur'an, and appears to mean "crane" or some other form of bird. The word gharāniq is obscure in this context. The original text - assuming that the Satanic Verses were indeed a historical occurrence - would have read: It also implies that for at least some of the Quran, Muhammad was winging it.Īccording to the tale, Muhammad sought to appease the Meccans, and so announced the following verses as part of the Qur'an, endorsing prayer to Allah's daughters:Īnd Manat the third, the other? These are the exalted gharāniq It might have been an act of political expediency as well perhaps Muhammad was attempting to curry favour with the local Quraysh tribe who controlled Mecca, and the shrine of the Ka'aba.
Muslims are also vehement in claiming Allah has no offspring, not Allat, Manat, and Al-Uzza, and certainly not Jesus, who they consider a prophet, not a part of divinity. If true, the tale implies many things - that at one point, Muhammad was bending to local polytheist pressure, that not all of Muhammad's revelations were divine, and thirdly that Allat, Manat, and Al-Uzza were all feminine, which is important in such a patriarchal religion as Islam. The implications are very strong for Islam.
This rejection upset many of the people of Mecca who were accustomed to worshipping these other deities. Muhammad rejected the worship of these other deities, insisting upon the worship of Allah alone. But beneath him were various subordinate deities, including his daughters Allat, Manat, and Al-Uzza. In the pre-Islamic paganism of Mecca, Allah was one god among many, but was the chief of the pantheon. The Satanic Verses refers to an alleged incident in the history of Islam in which Muhammad received a revelation from Satan and presented it as part of the Qur'an.
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