by Sohail Arshad, New Age Islam
“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."
In other words, at the time of being driven out of God’s court, Satan vows to teach man to slit the ears of animals and distort and disfigure God’s creations. In the former verse, the issue of corrupting the nature or creating pollution is mentioned while in the latter, the issue of distorting and disfiguring the physical structure of animals and human beings is discussed. In ancient times, idol worshippers would dedicate their animals to their deities and would slit the ears of those animals as a mark of identification. It was synonymous with distorting the creations of God. Therefore, distorting or changing the physical attributes or structure of man or animals or changing them with scientific knowledge is a satanic act and therefore un-Islamic. God dislikes man distorting or changing his created things. But extremist groups in Islamic world mainly in Afghanistan slash the ears and nose of guilty women as a punishment. The Quran calls even slitting the ears and nose of animals un-Islamic but these so-called spokesmen of the Islamic shariah and the members of these barbaric tribes consider this an Islamic act whereas the Quran calls it a satanic act.
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