It might have been an act of political expediency as well perhaps Muhammad was attempting to curry favour with the local Quraysh tribe who controlled Mecca, and the shrine of the Ka'aba. Muslims are also vehement in claiming Allah has no offspring, not Allat, Manat, and Al-Uzza, and certainly not Jesus, who they consider a prophet, not a part of divinity. If true, the tale implies many things - that at one point, Muhammad was bending to local polytheist pressure, that not all of Muhammad's revelations were divine, and thirdly that Allat, Manat, and Al-Uzza were all feminine, which is important in such a patriarchal religion as Islam. The implications are very strong for Islam. This rejection upset many of the people of Mecca who were accustomed to worshipping these other deities. Muhammad rejected the worship of these other deities, insisting upon the worship of Allah alone. But beneath him were various subordinate deities, including his daughters Allat, Manat, and Al-Uzza. In the pre-Islamic paganism of Mecca, Allah was one god among many, but was the chief of the pantheon. The Satanic Verses refers to an alleged incident in the history of Islam in which Muhammad received a revelation from Satan and presented it as part of the Qur'an.
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