سورة النساء

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): The polytheists of the Arabs used to do this. They would cut the ears of livestock.

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Jabir narrates: Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said regarding the verse وَ لَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَیُغَیِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ اللهِ [And I will surely command them so that they shall alter Allah's creation]: "What is meant is altering the religion of Allah."

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him) was asked about matters that resemble creating. He said: "They are of three kinds: ... one type is the creation of alteration, in the sense that Allah said: وَ لَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَیُغَیِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ اللهِ [And I will surely command them so that they shall alter Allah's creation]."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Yunus narrates from one of his companions from Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) that he said regarding the verse: وَ لآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَیُغَیِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ اللهِ وَ مَن یَتَّخِذِ الشَّیْطَانَ وَلِیًّا مِّن دُونِ اللهِ فَقَدْ خَسِرَ خُسْرَانًا مُّبِینًا [And I will surely command them so that they shall alter Allah's creation; and whoever takes Satan as a guardian instead of Allah has indeed suffered a manifest loss]: "What is meant by altering Allah's creation is altering Allah's command with a command that [Satan] issues."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Whoever recites the Quran and is not humble before Allah, and whose heart does not soften, and who is not gripped in his innermost being by sorrow and fear, has taken lightly the greatness of Allah the Exalted's station and has suffered a manifest loss.