SATAN'S PLOTS (VERSE NO. 117- 121)

      Here again the argument is on the polytheism and polytheist, who mainly worship two deities - Females, and Rebel Satan.

      Some commentators have understood the female here to mean some of the idols that were called by female names. Some of the Pagan Arabs had chosen for their worship some idols with names in feminine gender, like, OZZA - MANAAT - NÄ, ILEH, or like the famous deity, Venus, who was the goddes of sex, beauty, and carnal pleasures.

      The next verse points at satan and his plots and purposes who deceives man by vain desires, superstitions, and false fears. Satan managed to obtain God's permission to tempt and deceive man, and this leave was due to the Free Will that God has granted to man. So if man intentionally and willingly do not obey and follow Satan, the devil will have not any force- majeure, or compelling authority over man.

      In the next verse we read that God has cursed Satan, and has him outcasted and expelled from the realm of God's Grace and Mercy; because he was so puffed up with arrogance and vanity that he intentionally disobeyed his creator!

      The verse then implies that; Satan has sworn to take a certain share of God's servants from among the mankind, assigning them to himself! Other verses elsewhere confirm that Satan's boasting is on that account that the portion of mankind seduced by him will be so corrupted in their nature that they will behave as if they are Devil's servants, and worshippers! Satan has not indeed the power of seducing sincere servants of God, or whom he intends to seduce. He may only lay his trap on the way of some weak minded and capricious persons, who themselves have made a ground for Satan to sow his seeds of evil. He may deceive people with false and vain desires, or delude them to superstitions that proceed from ignorance, unreasoning fears of the unknown, or mysteries. He may entice and allure them by a belief in magic or chance, or the like.

      The phrase of the verse (No. 119): ``I will command them to slit the ears of the animal.'' Points at some superstitions that some of the Pagan Arabs had. They used to slit the ears of some domestic animals as a mark that they belonged to the idols, and no one had to make use of them or even to touch them!

      As for the phrase: ``I will command, and they will alter Allah's creation.'' It may refer to the fact that, man, by his nature through his instinct has been created a Monotheist, and the worshipper of the Only One true God, Who is the creator of the universe. But by various superstitions such as astrology, magic, chance, vain belief in things that do not exist, he is turned away from his one true Lord God! Thus so many natures have been stunted and hindered from normal growth, and are perverted from their original instinct by ignorance- by superstition and by cruel customs. God has created man pure, sincere and godly but devil defaces man's beautiful image.