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[Satan said:] "I will lead them astray and fill them with false
hopes. I will command them and they will cut off cattle's ears.
I will command them and they will change Allah's Creation."
Anyone who takes satan as his protector in place of Allah has
clearly lost everything." (Surat an-Nisa', 119)

The above verse contains the expression "yubattikunna," which de-
rives from the verb "battaka" meaning "to cut off or break off." The term

"yughayyirunna" in the verse derives from the verb "ghayyara," meaning
"to change, alter, impair a thing's original form." At the end of both verbs
appears the confirmatory letter "nun." With these expressions, this verse
of Surat an-Nisa' may, in one aspect, be pointing to the scientific activity
of copying or cloning of organisms. (Allah knows the truth.) This is be-
cause cloning experiments are generally conducted with cells taken from
an animal's ear. To put it another way, a replica of a living thing is pro-
duced along with the extraction of cells from tissue samples "cut from an-
imals' ears," just as described in the verse.
A report by the German Federal Agricultural Research Center pro-
vides the following information:
The tissue collection phase is short and simple. Once an animal has
been located and restrained, a tissue sample like an ear clipping can
be collected within seconds. Furthermore, somatic cells can be

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