The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 69
PT. 11 YŪNUS CH. 10 قَالُوا اتَّخَذَ اللهُ وَلَدًا سُنَهُ هُوَ They say, “Allah has taken. 69 الْغَنِيُّ لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَوتِ وَمَا فِي Him الْأَرْضِ إِنْ عِنْدَكُمْ مِنْ سُلْطنٍ بِهَذَا heavens and whatever is in the اتَقُوْلُوْنَ عَلَى اللهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُوْنَ ) قُلْ اِنَّ الَّذِيْنَ يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ الْكَذِبَ لَا يُفْلِحُونَ مَتَاعٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا ثُمَّ إِلَيْنَا مَرُ جِعُهُمْ ثُمَّ unto Him a son. ' Holy is He! He is Self-Sufficient. To belongs whatever is in the earth. You have no authority for this. Do you say against Allah what you know not?1344 70. Say, 'Those who invent a lie against Allah shall not prosper. ' 71. "They will have some enjoyment in this world. Then نُذِيقَهُمُ الْعَذَابَ الشَّدِيدَ بِمَا كَانُوا to Us is their return. Then shall We make them taste a severe punishment, because they used to disbelieve. يَكْفُرُونَ "2:117; 4:172; 9:31; 17:112; 18:5, 6. 4:51; 16:117. º3:15, 198; 9:38; 16:118; 28:61; 40:40 no benefit from the light of the Spiritual Sun that had shone on them and had refused to use their eyes, they should at least make use of their ears so that they might receive a new life by benefiting from the experience of others. 1344. Commentary: In v. 67, it had been hinted that in the false doctrines of disbelievers lie hidden the seeds of their destruction. In the present verse, the Quran proceeds to refute the doctrine of the plurality of gods, the most heinous of all false beliefs, and of the various forms of this doctrine it selects the belief that God has a son. This doctrine differs from other known polytheistic dogmas in that, whereas in other forms of shirk, idolaters claim only that they can attain nearness to God through the instrumentality of their gods, by this doctrine a person is believed to be an actual partner in Godhead. Four arguments have been given here in refutation of the doctrine that a person can be a Son of God. The first is contained in the words, Holy is He, which mean that God is free from all defects and imperfections. But the belief that God has a son presupposes the presence of carnal passions in Him as well as His being subject to the laws of decay and death, for only such beings or things are perpetuated in their progeny as are subject to 1277