The Satanic Verses is a novel written by an author named Salman Rushdie. In the book, there are some parts that talk about a story from a long time ago. This story is about some words that were spoken by a very important person named Prophet Muhammad who was a leader of a religion called Islam.
These words are called the "Satanic Verses" and the story goes like this: Prophet Muhammad was trying to teach people about his religion and he wanted them to believe in it. One day, he was in a city called Mecca and he started preaching about his religion. When he was done talking, some people who didn't believe in his religion got very upset and started arguing with him.
At this point, Prophet Muhammad got very worried that people would not listen to him anymore. So, he decided to pray to God for help. And during this prayer, some words came to his mind that he thought were from God. These words said that there were three goddesses that people could pray to along with God. This made some people very happy because they could still pray to their goddesses and follow Islam.
However, after some time, Prophet Muhammad realized that these words were not really from God. They were actually from the devil, who wanted to trick people into not believing in Islam. He became very upset and asked people to ignore these words.
This story is very controversial because some people believe that it is an important part of Islamic history and others think that it is not true. Salman Rushdie wrote a book about it, but some people did not like it and thought that it was disrespectful to their religion.
The book became very famous, but it also caused a lot of controversy and some people even got angry about it. In the end, it is important to remember that it is just a story and it is up to you to decide what you want to believe.