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Have ye thought upon Al-Lat and Al-'Uzza and Manat, the third, the other?
There is
surrounding these verses.
The story goes like this: Allah revealed surah 53 to
Muhammad through verses 19 and 20, which refer to three Arab godesses (Al-lat, Al-'Uzza, and Manat).
Then Satan tempted Muhammad to add the following verses to attract Muhammad's polytheistic neighbors:
These are the exalted cranes (intermediaries), whose intercession is to be hoped for.
These verses ("the Satanic verses") were later removed and replaced with the current verses 21-22, which
make fun of the idea of having female gods. (There is only one God and he is male.)
Are yours the males and His the females?53:19
