Have you any authority for what you say? Thus, the Arabian belief as stated in the Qur'an was that they regarded the angels as daughters of Allah | Therefore, the supposition that Allah has adopted a son inevitably amounts to ascribing all those weaknesses to His sublime Being which characterise mortal man |
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These and many other Qur'anic verses ou the same theme explain Surah Al-Ikhlas fully well | Although they could not dare call anyone as, God forbid, father of God, obviously human mind cannot remain immune against such a concept that God too should be regarded as a son of somebody when it is conceived that He is not tree from sex and procreation and that He too, like man, is the kind of being which begets children and needs to adopt a son in case it is childless, That is why one of the questions asked of the Holy Prophet upon whom be peace was: what is the ancestry of Allah? " Bani Isra'il:111 "Allah has no offspring, and there is no other deity as a partner with Him |
and another was: from whom has He inherited the world and who will inherit it after Him? These and many other Qur'anic verses ou the same theme explain Surah Al-Ikhlas fully well.
For the individuals of the species whose survival depends upon sex and procreation neither exist since eternity nor will exist till eternity | Somali - Abduh : Eebe wax ma dhalin isna lama dhalin• What, do you ascribe to Allah that of which you have no knowledge? Hausa - Gumi : "Bai haifa ba kuma ba a haife Shi ba"• This not only follows from assuming God begetting children but also from assuming that He has adopted someone as a son |
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Allah is AII-pure: He is Self Sufficient He is the Owner of everything that is in the heavens and the earth | Swahili - Al-Barwani : Hakuzaa wala hakuzaliwa• Spanish - Cortes : No ha engendrado ni ha sido engendrado• " Az-Zukhruf: l 5 "Yet the people have set up the Jinn as partners with Allah, whereas He is their Creator; they have also invented for Him sons and daughters without having any knowledge, whereas He is absolutely free from and exalted far above the things they say |
English - Sahih International : He neither begets nor is born• Therefore, the assumption that God begets children necessitates that He should, God forbid, be a material and physical entity, should have a wife of His own species, and some substance also should issue from His body.