The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 829
PT. 23 AZ-ZUMAR CH. 39 لَوْ اَرَادَ اللهُ أَنْ يَتَّخِذَ وَلَدًا لَّاصْطَفى If Allah had desired to take. 5 b مِمَّا يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَاءُ سُبْحَنَهُ هُوَ اللهُ chosen whom He pleased out of الْوَاحِدُ الْقَهَّارُ to Himself a son, He could have what He creates. Holy is He! He is Allah, the One, the Most Supreme. 3440A خَلَقَ السَّمَوتِ وَالْأَرْضَ بِالْحَقِّ يُكَوِّرُ He created the heavens and. 6 the earth in accordance with the makes the night to cover the الَّيْلَ عَلَى النَّهَارِ وَيُكَوِرُ النَّهَارَ عَلَى الَّيْلِ requirements of wisdom. He وَسَخَّرَ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ كُلٌّ يَجْرِى day, and He makes the day to b لِاَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى اَلَا هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْغَفَّارُ cover the night; and He has pressed the sun and the moon into service; each pursues its course until an appointed time. Hearken, it is He alone Who is the Mighty, the Great Forgiver. 3441 خَلَقَكُمْ مِنْ نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنْهَا He created you from a single. 7 being; then from that He made زَوْجَهَا وَأَنْزَلَ لَكُمْ مِنَ الْأَنْعَامِ ثَمَنِيَةَ its mate; and He has sent down ª2:117; 10:69; 17:112; 18:5; 19:89-93. º6:74; 14:20; 16:4; 29:45. º7:55; 13:3; 29:62; 31:30; 35:14. d4:2; 7:190; 16:73; 30:22. idols of his own imagination, such as saints and holy men; wealth, power and passion; inherited beliefs and customs, etc. always pretending to believe that these can help him to understand and realise the Divine Being. All this the Quran dubs as mere lie and self-deception. 3440A. Commentary: The most prevalent and perhaps the most hideous form of idolatry which has done the greatest injury to man's religious instinct and his spiritual development and which has, therefore, quite rightly been condemned 2743 and denounced unsparingly and repeatedly in the Quran is the dogma of Jesus' being the only son of God. It is this most blasphemous of all Christian dogmas which the present verse seeks to controvert; the argument advanced being that as God is the sole Creator of all things and He is i. e. Most Supreme, He does not stand in need of a son. The argument is continued in the next verse. 3441. Commentary: This verse adduces as a further argument the creation of heavens and earth and the existence of perfect