moses wrote on Aug 13
th, 2013 at 2:48pm:
True Colours wrote:
Quote:Altering nature is evil
...And he [Satan] said: "I will take an appointed portion of your servants; Verily, I will mislead them, and surely, I will arouse in them false desires; and certainly, I will order them to slit the ears of cattle, and indeed I will order them to change the nature created by God."...
- the Quran, an-Nisaa, v.118-9
Taqiyya again T.C.
There is no taqiyya in Islam. I feel sorry for you that you are so deluded that you cannot see the truth before your eyes.
moses wrote on Aug 13
th, 2013 at 2:48pm:
It is very clear that allah and not satan is doing the cursing and threatening to take a portion of the servants in verse 118.
Verse 119 is a continuation of the curse and threat by allah.
Again very clearly allah says that he will lead them astray to slit the ears of cattle and alter creation (alter creation in this case refers to slitting a cows naturally whole ear) it has nothing to do with the environment.
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This claim of yours is so stupid that I am tempted to put this in the 'Islamophobes retarded' thread.
Verse 119 is a continuation of what Satan said he would do to God's servants in retaliation for God cursing him.
No scholar in the history of Islam has ever interpreted verse 119 to be anything other than that.
Quote:Allah cursed him. And he [Shaitan (Satan)] said: "I will take an appointed portion of your slaves; Verily, I will mislead them, and surely, I will arouse in them false desires; and certainly, I will order them to slit the ears of cattle, and indeed I will order them to change the nature created by Allah." And whoever takes Shaitan (Satan) as a Wali (protector or helper) instead of Allah, has surely suffered a manifest loss.
http://www.dar-us-salam.com/TheNobleQuran/
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar translation:
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God cursed him. And Satan said: "Truly, I will take to myself of Thy servants, an apportioned share; and I will cause them to go astray. And I will fill them with false desires. And I will command them, then they will slit the ears of the flocks. And I will command them, and they will alter the creation of God." And whoever takes Satan to himself for a protector other than God, then, surely, he lost, a clear loss.
Al-Muntakhab translation:
Quote:Allah has cursed him and afflicted him with such evils as indicate divine wrath and a malignant fate. His insolence was such as to promise, Allah to incite a determinate number of His servants to evil. "I will lead them wrong," he said, "and I will lead them by the nose to an evil line of conduct and arouse in them vain desires and stir up their sinful sensuous appetite." "I will command them to receive the pagan superstition and slit and cut the ears of cattle and I will command them to change the course and order of things wherein they were set at the creation." And he who puts himself under the tutelage of Al-Shaytan besides Allah, shall have been a great loser.
Muhammad Taqi Usmani translation:
Quote:whom Allah has cursed. He (the Satan) said, "Surely I will take an appointed share from Your slaves; and I will lead them astray, and I will tempt them with false hopes, and I will command them, whereby they shall slit the ears of cattle, and I will command them, whereby they shall alter the creation of Allah." Whoever takes the Satan for friend, instead of Allah, incurs an obvious loss.
Shabbir Ahmed translation:
Quote: Allah has rejected Satan for saying, "Verily, of your servants I will take my due share." (A great many people follow their own Satans and the clergy eats a portion from their wealth in the name of God; that is Satan's share) Satan (Iblis) in allegorical terms had said, "I surely will lead them astray, I will entice them, confound them." According to Satan's promise, these representatives of his mislead men and women away from the Qur'an, and confound them with ritualism and superstitions, such as magic, dreams, astrology, amulets, numerology, ghoul, exorcism, and vain beliefs. Marking cattle's ears, choosing red cows or black goats for specific sacrifices, are superstitions that the clergy propagates. They try to present the Laws of Allah operative in the World of Creation in a distorted fashion. They assign miracles to living or dead "saints" ignoring the Law of Cause and Effect. Whoever befriends this handiwork of Satan, has ignored Allah. Such a person is verily a loser and his loss is manifest.
Dr. Munir Munshey translation:
Quote:Allah cursed (Shaitan), and (in response) he said, "I will lure away a large number of Your servants (as my followers). "I will definitely mislead them. I will certainly stir up vain and wanton desires in them. I will command them and they will split the ears of the cattle _ (a common practice of the idol worshippers). I will persuade them, and they will change and corrupt the nature (of the order) of things that Allah has created." Whoever takes Shaitan as his master instead of Allah, has indeed incurred a severe and significant loss!