The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 77
PT. 16 MARYAM CH. 19 تَكَادُ السَّمَوتُ يَتَفَطَرْنَ مِنْهُ وَتَنْشَقُ The heavens might well. 91 nigh burst thereat, and the earth cleave mountains asunder, and the fall down in pieces, 2230 92. Because they ascribe a son الْأَرْضُ وَتَخِرُّ الْجِبَالُ هَدَّان ان دَعَوُا لِلرَّحْمَنِ وَلَدان to the Gracious God, وَمَا يَنْبَغِي لِلرَّحْمَن اَنْ يَتَّخِذَ وَلَدَاة Whereas it becomes not. 93 the Gracious God to take unto Himself a son. 2231 2:117; 4:172; 10:69; 37:152-155. or afflicted him. means, a very evil, abominable, severe, thing or affair; an evil thing against which human nature revolts or which causes an uproar on account of its extreme abomination (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: The verse purports to say that 5 (idolatry) is a most abominable thing. Human nature revolts against it and reason and intellect recoil in disgust from it and no sane person can help protesting against such blasphemous practice or belief. No doctrine has been condemned a SO strongly and repeatedly in the Quran as the Christian dogma that Jesus, son of Mary, a mortal, subject to all human weaknesses and frailties, was the son of God. 2230. Commentary: The verse means to say that the dogma that Jesus is the son of God is so hideous that the heavens, the earth and the mountains might well break into pieces and fall asunder at the enormity of this idea. The belief is repugnant to heavenly beings because it is against Divine attributes and against all that they stand for. It is revolting for human beings living on the earth because it offends against the dictates of human nature and man's intellect and reason recoil in sheer disgust from it. Men of high and noble ideals such as Divine Prophets and God's Elect also deny and denounce it because the idea that man should stand in need of the vicarious sacrifice of anybody for the attainment of salvation and a high moral status runs counter to their own spiritual experience. The doctrine of Atonement is dependent on and is inseparably connected with belief in the sonship of Jesus and bars the door to all moral and spiritual advancement and attainment of high and noble ideals and condemns man to undeserved moral degradation. In short, the doctrine that Jesus is son of God is against all that is sane, sound and sensible. 1991 2231. Commentary: The Sūrah contains a most emphatic and clear denunciation of