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him as God Incarnate, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, living in human life, is a mythological or poetic way of expressing his significance for us. This recognition is called for in the interests of truth; but it also has increasingly important practical implication for our relationship to the peoples of the other great world religions. *. God is not subject to the contingencies of birth and death. . He is Ever-living and neither begets, nor is begotten. The Quran sets forth a true concept of Him which does not in any way diminish, confine, or limit Him. For instance:. He is God, the Single; God the Self-Existing and. Besought of all. He begets not, nor is He begotten; and there is none like unto Him. (112:2-5). . Put thy trust in the One Who is Ever-living and is the source of life, Who dies not, and glorify Him with His praise. (25:59). . The Quran utterly and emphatically rejects the concept of the Trinity. For instance: ". They allege: The Gracious One has taken unto Himself a son. Assuredly, you have uttered a monstrous thing! The heavens might well nigh burst thereat, and the earth cleave asunder, and the mountains fall down in pieces, because they ascribe a son to the Gracious One; whereas it becomes not the Gracious One to take unto Himself a son. There is no one in the heavens and the earth but he shall come to the. Gracious One as a bondman. (19:89-94). . All praise belongs to God, Who has sent down the Book to His servant, free from all distortion, full of truth and guidance, that it may give warning of a grievous chastisement proceeding from Him, and that it may give the believers who work righteousness the glad tidings that they shall have a good reward which they shall enjoy forever. . And that it may warn those who say: God has taken unto. Himself a son. They have no knowledge whatever concerning it, nor had their fathers. Grievous is the assertion that they make. They only utter a falsehood. (18:2-6). . We sent no Messenger before thee but We directed him:. There is no God but I; so worship Me alone. But they say:. The Gracious One has taken to Himself a son. Holy is He. . Those whom they so designate are only His honoured ser* Ibid, p. 178. 45