Well, it obviously isn't what God or Allah wants, Eliza. It's what some religiously motivated people a looooong time ago decided that God or Allah must want...and they wrote it down. ;-D

Chances are, they could be wrong!

I very much doubt that God wants anything, given that God already is everything (in the sense of being omnipresent and universal). Only beings that are separated from all the other stuff around them want things, precisely because they are separated, and they therefore have needs. God needs nothing.

People need a whole lot of things and they make up rules for other people based on what they imagine God needs, because they see God, in effect, in their own image....only larger, more powerful, and, amazingly enough, even MORE needy!!! ;-) That's silly.

Holy books always reflect the common values of the culture they were written in. This is why things like slavery, stoning people to death, and many other examples which most of us would not countenance now were seen as perfectly normal when some of the old religious texts were written.

And as a matter of fact, there are things we see as perfectly normal now that will probable horrify people in some unknown future we are all heading toward...but that'll be their view of it, not ours.