Basal Repudiating Techniques for Alleged Satanic Verses Story: Narrated in Some Sīrah Literature

Abstract

This paper intends to adduce the basic and easy tricks to negate the alleged story of Satanic Verses which is also called “Qiṣṣat Al-Gharānīq”. In which it’s reported and alleged that Satan interjected some words in the revelation of Sūrah al-Najm. Actually, this study struggles for the easement of the reader, that how easily the matter of this story would be understood and negated. In order to achieve this target, the analytical method of research has been adopted here. The basic and common techniques – which are amazingly ignored by the propagators of this story – are being introduced here in this article for an easy rejection of this story. As we know a number of Qur’ānic verses that prove its Divine protection from falsehood. Being inscribed in a preserved tablet, it can’t be intervened or changed by Satan. According to Allah Almighty, the Prophet of Islam (Peace and greetings of Allāh be upon him) can’t commit any error instead of speaking only the Divine Revelation exactly. So, how couldn’t he recognize the cursed Satan. The alleged satanic words can also not be adjusted in Sūrah al-Najm because the rest of the verses are discrediting instead of praising the pagan deities. On the other hand, chronologically it’s also impossible that the alleged satanic interpolated words may remain un-abrogated for a long period of Nine years because the verses 52 to 54 of Sūrah al-Ḥajj – which are considered as the abrogating verses – revealed after the Hijrah occurred almost nine years later from the revelation of Sūrah al-Najm. So, the article under observation, extensively, represents the basic, common and quite easy methods, through which this story can be repudiated very comfortably.