whats your take on the satanic verses surah najm 53...
The short answer is there's nothing satanic about those verses. If they're properly read, they serve as further confirmation that there are no goddesses, nor female angels, nor is there is any "queen of heaven", regardless of what the spiritually blind may claim to the contrary.
A more detailed answer for those interested...
The reason some people refer to the passage in Sura 53:19-22 as "the satanic verses", is because they
wrongly believe Sura Najm is about Muhammad, and thus have made up an entire make-believe story about this, as "Islam" has done with many (if not most) of the stories within the Koran/Quran. The Koran was sent to
CONFIRM previous Scripture (the Old Covenant and New Covenant),
NOT to contradict it or supersede it, as it repeatedly and unequivocally states throughout the Koran.
When
correctly understood, Sura 53 has absolutely nothing to do with Muhammad. The "Star" being referred to in the preceding verses (
Sura 53:1-18) is
confirmation of The Messiah/Christ during
His Second Coming (
Rev. 9:1,
Sura 43:61).
Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a "Star" (beam/ Being of Light) fall from heaven unto the Earth: and to HIM was given the key of the Bottomless Pit.
Christ's Crown of Thorns was made from a Lote-tree, which should remove all doubt as to whom Sura 53:1-18 is referencing. There were obviously no Lote-trees growing in the desert wasteland anywhere near what would hundreds of years later be referred to as "Mecca".
What follows is the mention of 3 pagan goddesses, which again is a
warning against the worship of such things, and thus
confirmation of previous Scripture. These pagan goddesses are
NOT "daughters of Allah" or "angels with female names" or any other of the made-up nonsense traditionally attributed to them by spiritually blind "Islamic scholars".
Sura 53:19-22
53:19. Have ye seen Lat. and 'Uzza,
53:20. And another, the third (goddess), Manat?
53:21. What! For you the male gender, and for Him, the female?
53:22. Behold, such would be indeed a division most unfair!
It should be self-evident that God (Allah, the "I AM") is
NOT a man (human), nor the Son of Man (
Num. 23:19), nor does He beget human children. God is a gender-less
SPIRIT-BEING (
John 4:24), as are all of the angels. The reason our Creator and the angels are designated with male attributes and male names is because the natural male role as protector and provider is a more accurate description and thus makes it easier for mankind to understand Them.
People have been making up gods and goddesses to worship for millennia, and the Babylonian mystery religion of Roman Catholicism had already been spreading their Mary worship and trinitarian nonsense for three centuries when God sent down the Koran/Quran via Gabriel to Muhammad to correct this
errant behavior (which is condemned in the Bible). The Koran should have sparked the first reformation and destroyed Roman Catholicism, instead of being used to invent yet another evil organized religion.
Mary worship itself in Roman Catholicism was nothing new. It was merely a Babylonian custom passed down to the Romans, who were turning their "queen of heaven" into a worship of Mary, whom they
blasphemously refer to as "the mother of God" to this day. The Romans are the direct descendants of the Babylonians (
Sura 17:7) and the only race of people to ever destroy the
ONLY Temple God ever sanctioned to be built on planet Earth by Solomon. Satan/Iblis has conned men into building all of the rest (churches, synagogues, mosques, etc.).
Proof of this Babylonian custom regarding godesses may be found in the following passage, written roughly 600 years
before the birth of Jesus to the virgin Mary.
Jeremiah 44:17-25
44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto
the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to
the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
44:19 And when we burned incense to
the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her wafers to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him [that] answer, saying,
44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the "I AM" remember them, and came it [not] into His mind?
44:22
So that the "I AM" could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the "I AM", and have not obeyed the voice of the "I AM", nor walked in His Law, nor in His Statutes, nor in His Covenant; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the Word of the "I AM", all Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt:
44:25 Thus saith the "I AM" Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying,
We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
Please compare the passage above with the following verses in Sura 53 confirming it:
Sura 53:23-24
53:23. These are nothing but names which ye have devised,-
ye and your ancestors,- for which "I AM" has sent down
no authority (whatever). They follow nothing but conjecture and what their own souls desire!- Even though there has already come to them Guidance from their Lord!
53:24.
Nay, shall man have (just) anything he hankers after?
and
Sura 53:27-28
53:27.
Those who believe NOT in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names.
53:28. But
they have NO knowledge therein. They follow nothing but conjecture; and conjecture avails nothing against Truth.
There are no goddesses,
nor any queen in or of heaven, as
ALL of God's Prophets and Apostles/Messengers have known, including Muhammad. And no Prophet or Apostle of God has
ever taught others to bow to them. So the fabricated hadith and sirah driven fable about Muhammad allegedly bowing down to idols of godesses, to allegedly appease the non-existent tribe of "
Quraysh" in the non-existent city of Mecca is total nonsense.
The key to
correctly understanding the Koran/Quran has
always resided within The Law and the Gospel that the Koran/Quran was sent to
CONFIRM. That is why the Koran/Quran
COMMANDS us to read, study, and put into practice The Law that Allah gave us (found
only in the first five books of the Bible), by following The Example of Christ (found only in the Gospel), whom Allah sent.