Refutation of the Divinity of Christ — Page 8
8 cannot reach Him nor can eyes encompass Him, but He reaches the eyes or He encompasses the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. In other words, the Noble Quran is questioning in what way the Messiah is the son of Allah. Is it in the apparent and literal sense of saying the Messiah, son of Allah , or is it in some other context? If it is in the apparent and literal sense, then it is wrong, because in that case Her Ladyship Mary, peace be upon her, must inescapably and inevitably be considered the wife of God and His consort. Further, all Christians and all intelligent people do not subscribe to the belief that Her Ladyship Mary as is the wife of Allah the Exalted. If you take son of Allah and progeny of Allah to be metaphoric and do not take the context to be the literal and apparent mean- ing, then of course the metaphoric meanings are unusually vast. It is totally and completely wrong to take the meaning of son of Allah to be in the sense of proposing a being which physically fuses with an embodied God; for, if you take this to be the mean- ing and call the Messiah Allah and the Son of Allah, then it is nec- essarily required that the Messiah be God in his being and in his attributes, the equal of God, and in the attribute of being worthy of worship, the attribute of being the Creator, and knowledge etc. —one who has attributes unlike those of a human body but one whose attributes are like those of God. It is clear, however, that these perfect attributes were not present in the Messiah, peace be upon him, like they are in God. So reflect!