b-t-k

Description

The Arabic root بتك (b-t-k) carries the core meaning of cutting, severing, or mutilating something completely. In its Quranic occurrence (4:119), it appears in the context of Satan's promise to command people to alter or mutilate Allah's creation, referring to changing the natural order that God established. This root emphasizes a destructive severing or disfigurement that violates the original, divinely-intended form or state of creation.