![]() ![]() Muhammad would later retract the verse, declaring it to be the work of Satan. This verse endeared Muhammad to the pagan Meccans, who had been dismayed by Muhammad's attacks on their gods and his declarations that their ancestors were in hell, but dismayed his followers who were shocked by this sudden embrace by Muhammad of shirk. In what is known as the Satanic verses incident, or also the Gharaniq (cranes) incident, according to all of the great biographers of the prophet, Satan whispered into the ear of Muhammad, corrupting a divine verse from Allah and turning it into an invitation to shirk, in the form of the worship of the daughters of Allah, deities worshipped by the pagan Meccans in addition to Allah at their shrine, the Ka'bah. Despite the lofty place of the text of the Qur'an in Islamic theology, according to the Islamic tradition at least one time the holy words of Allah were sullied by the whispers of Satan. ![]() As such, every word of the Qur'an, in Allah's own clear Arabic, is not simply divinley inspired, but is literally divine speech. ![]() According to orthodox Sunni Islam, the Qur'an as a whole was not the inspired word of a prophet channeling the holy spirit of Allah, but rather the very words of Allah coming our through the lips of his final apostle. ![]()
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