وَلَأُضِلَّنَّهُمْ وَلَأُمَنِّيَنَّهُمْ وَلَـَٔامُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّ ءَاذَانَ ٱلْأَنْعَـٰمِ وَلَـَٔامُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ وَمَن يَتَّخِذِ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنَ وَلِيًّا مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ فَقَدْ خَسِرَ خُسْرَانًا مُّبِينًا
Wa la udillannahum wa la umanni yannnahum wa la aamurannahum fala yubat tikunna aazaanal lan'aami wa la aamurannahum fala yughai yirunna khalqal laah; wa mai yattakhizish Shaitaana waliyyam mmin doonil laahi faqad khasira khusraanam mubeena
dan aku benar-benar akan menyesatkan mereka, dan akan membangkitkan angan-angan kosong pada mereka dan menyuruh mereka (memotong telinga-telinga binatang ternak), lalu mereka benar-benar memotongnya, dan akan aku suruh mereka (mengubah ciptaan Allah), lalu benar-benar mereka mengubahnya". Barang siapa yang menjadikan setan menjadi pelindung selain Allah, maka sesungguhnya ia menderita kerugian yang nyata.
"And I will surely lead them astray, and stir up false hopes in them, and command them to slit the ears of cattle, and command them to deform God's creation." Whoever takes Satan as a protector instead of God has suffered a clear and ruinous loss.
The four verbs are Satan's own, spoken in his voice, and they run from the inward to the outward: misdirection, then false expectation, then two commands that reach the herd and the body. Slitting a camel's ear marked it as pledged to a deity, one of the customs named at 5:103. What the deforming of creation covers has been argued since the earliest commentaries, from bodily alteration to altering the way God set for people, and both readings are held.