The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 13
PT. 3 ĀL-E-‘IMRĀN CH. 3 هُوَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ عَلَيْكَ الْكِتَبَ مِنْهُ أَيتَ He it is Who has sent down to. 8 مُّحْكَمْتُ هُنَّ أُمُّ الْكِتُبِ وَأُخَرُ decisive in thee the Book; "in it there are verses that are meaning they are the basis of the Book and there are bothers interpretations. But those in whose hearts pursue such thereof as are susceptible of b مُتَشْبِهُتُ فَأَمَّا الَّذِيْنَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ زَيْةٌ فَيَتَّبِعُونَ مَا تَشَابَهَ مِنْهُ ابْتِغَاءَ الْفِتْنَةِ that are susceptible of different وَابْتِغَاءَ تَأْوِيلِهِ وَمَا يَعْلَمُ تَأْوِيْلَةَ إِلَّا is perversity الله وَالرَّسِخُونَ فِي الْعِلْمِ يَقُوْلُوْنَ different امَنَّا بِهِ كُلٌّ مِنْ عِنْدِرَ بْنَا وَمَا يَذَّكَّرُ إِلَّا أولُوا الْأَلْبَابِ interpretations, seeking discord seeking and wrong interpretation of it. And none knows its right interpretation except Allah and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge; they say, 'We believe in it; the whole is from our Lord. '-And none heed except those gifted with understanding 299 a11:2. 39:24. 7:54; 18:79. d4:163. Jesus, whose body, like that of other human beings, was formed in the womb of a woman, could not escape being affected by the limitations and failings inherent in woman. Now as the Bible holds woman to be morally inferior to man, for it was through Eve that Satan deceived Adam (Gen. 3:12, 13), Jesus could not but have partaken of the failings and weaknesses of his mother. Thus, the fatherless birth of Jesus proved, if anything, that Jesus was by nature more inclined to sin than other men. This is why, in his discussion with the Christians of Najrān, the Holy Prophet pointedly referred to the birth 453 of Jesus as an argument disproving his divinity. He is reported to have said to them: "Do you not know that it was a woman who conceived Jesus, just as a woman conceives a child, and then she was delivered of him just as a woman is delivered of a child" (Jarīr, iii. 101). The clause, there is no God but He, has been placed as a natural consequence of the preceding clause. When it is God Who fashions children in the wombs of their mothers, no child born of a woman could claim to be divine. 299. Important Words: cla (decisive in meaning) is