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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: "Indeed, they have disbelieved who say, 'Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary.' Say, 'Who could prevent Allah if He intended to destroy the Messiah...'"

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Then Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said:
They have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary لقد كفر الذين قالوا إن الله هو المسيح ابن مريم
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
It is not hidden that the sentence is now affirmed by three affirmers, which are? The lam, qad, and the implied oath, because His saying:
And indeed ولقد
is estimated by your saying, "By Allah, indeed"
They have certainly disbelieved who say لقد كفر الذين قالوا
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
. So if someone asks: What informs you that there is something, namely the oath? We say: Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, informed us; Allah informed us of that, because Allah said:
(193) The Trustworthy Spirit has brought it down (194) Upon your heart, [O Muhammad] - that you may be of the warners - (195) In a clear Arabic language. نزل به الروح الأمين على قلبك لتكون من المنذرين بلسان عربي مبين
[Ash-Shu'ara 26:193-195]
And the Arabic tongue, whenever such a form comes, it is estimated by an oath, and thus the one who indicated that to us is the speech of Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
They have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary لقد كفر الذين قالوا إن الله هو المسيح ابن مريم
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
And these are the Christians by the explicit text of the Qur'an,
The Jews say, "Ezra is the son of Allah "; and the Christians say, "The Messiah is the son of Allah." وقالت اليهود عزير ابن الله وقالت النصارى المسيح ابن الله
[At-Tawbah 9:30]
. And His saying:
that Allah is إن الله هو
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
is a demonstrative pronoun, and the demonstrative pronoun conveys three things: the first is restriction, the second is affirmation, and the third is distinguishing between the attribute and the predicate. This last one is sometimes dispensed with, and the predicate is known without it, but it is used, as in His saying, the Exalted:
That we might follow the magicians if they are the predominant?" لعلنا نتبع السحرة إن كانوا هم الغالبين
[Ash-Shu'ara 26:40]
So here, is "hum" a demonstrative pronoun? What informs you? It puts what follows it in the accusative case, otherwise it would be in the nominative case. So here
if they are the predominant?" إن كانوا هم الغالبين
[Ash-Shu'ara 26:40]
we do not need it in terms of distinguishing between the attribute and the predicate, because pronouns are not described, pronouns are not described and nothing is described by them. And here it is not possible for
the victors الغالبين
to be an attribute of "al-waw" from two aspects: first, the rule we mentioned, which is that pronouns are not described and nothing is described by them; and second, that
the victors الغالبين
is in the accusative case and "al-waw" is in the nominative case, and it cannot be an attribute of it. In any case, we return to the benefits of the demonstrative pronoun: three. First? Restriction. Second? Affirmation. Third? Distinguishing between the predicate and the attribute. Here
that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary إن الله هو المسيح ابن مريم
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
May Allah fight them; how are they turned away? How can Allah be the Messiah, the son of Mary? The son of Mary: is he a created being or a Creator? A created being. And the Creator is Allah, so how can the Creator be the same as the created being? This is impossible rationally as it is impossible religiously. They also said that the Messiah is the son of Allah, just as the Jews said that Uzair is the son of Allah.
They have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary لقد كفر الذين قالوا إن الله هو المسيح ابن مريم
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
"Al-Masih" means the one who anoints, and "Al-Masih al-Dajjal" means the one who is anointed. Pay attention to the difference! "Al-Masih" here means the one who anoints, the scholars said, because no one is granted a cure for a defect except by the permission of Allah
you healed the blind and the leper with My permission يبرئ الأكمه والأبرص بإذن الله
[Al-Ma'idah 5:110]
so he was called Al-Masih. "Al-Masih al-Dajjal" means the one who is anointed because his eye is anointed, since he is one-eyed. As for those scholars, may Allah have mercy on them and pardon them, who recommended saying "Al-Musikh" (the one who is distorted) for Al-Masih al-Dajjal and "Al-Masih" for Isa ibn Maryam, this is a mistake, because the one who taught his ummah to say
I seek refuge in Allah from the punishment of the Hellfire and from the punishment of the grave, and I seek refuge in You from the trial of life and death and from the trial of the Messiah al-Dajjal أعوذ بالله من عذاب جهنم ومن عذاب القبر وأعوذ بك من فتنة المحيا والممات ومن فتنة المسيح الدجال
knew more about it than they did, and yet he named him Al-Masih. And His saying:
The son of Mary ابن مريم
he attributed him to his mother, because he has no father, so he was attributed to his mother. And it will come to us in the benefits, if Allah wills, that he has no father and is attributed to his mother.
The son of Mary ابن مريم
Maryam, the daughter of whom? Imran. And the sister of whom? The sister of Harun. So is she the sister of Musa and Harun? No, no? Why? Because they were named after their prophets, otherwise there is a long time between her and them.
Say قل
means, O Muhammad, for these
Then who could prevent Allah at all if He had intended to destroy Christ, the son of Mary, or his mother or everyone on the earth? فمن يملك من الله شيئا إن أراد أن يهلك المسيح ابن مريم وأمه ومن في الأرض جميعا
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
Allah is the greatest refuting argument. Who can prevent Allah if He intends to destroy? So the Messiah, the son of Mary, is a created being, subject to His power; Allah can destroy him, his mother, and everyone on earth. How can He be Allah, Mighty and Majestic? This is impossible. If Allah intended to destroy the Messiah, the son of Mary, his mother, and everyone on earth, can anyone prevent Allah? No one can prevent. And this is a refuting argument, and the proof of this is that Isa ibn Maryam, peace and blessings be upon him, the Jews tried to kill him, and indeed they entered and killed the one upon whom Allah cast his likeness, and they said, "We killed the Messiah, Isa ibn Maryam."
who could prevent Allah at all فمن يملك من الله شيئا
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
"Yamlik" means to prevent. Who prevents anything against the will of Allah
If He intends إن أراد
by the cosmic, decreed will
to destroy Christ, the son of Mary أن يهلك المسيح ابن مريم
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
, meaning He tires him after he existed, the Messiah, the son of Mary, whom you said is Allah, and his mother also, who brought him forth, so He destroys the branch and the root. From the branch? Isa. And the root is his mother. So Allah, the Exalted, if He intended to destroy the Messiah whom you claimed is Allah, and his root, which is his mother, and everyone on earth, can anyone prevent Allah? No, by Allah, no one can prevent Allah.
And if Allah were to impose blame on the people for what they have earned, He would not leave upon the earth any creature. But He defers them for a specified term ولو يؤاخذ الناس بما كسبوا ما ترك على ظهرها من دابة ولكن يؤخرهم إلى أجل مسمى
[Fatir 35:45]
And the One who is able to resurrect them all with one word on the Day of Resurrection is able to destroy them with one word, and no one can prevent anything from Him.
or everyone on the earth ومن في الأرض جميعا
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
All of us. جميعا
This is the state of the Messiah and his mother, and by His saying "and everyone on earth," He means He will destroy them all. Then He said:
And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth ولله ملك السموات والأرض
Everything in the heavens, everything we observe is owned by Allah. And if it is owned by Allah, it is impossible for it to be Allah. Clear? So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, argued that He is not Allah by two things: the first is that the Messiah cannot repel anything from himself if Allah intended to destroy him, and the second is that everything in the heavens and the earth is the property of Allah, so how can He be Allah? How can the owned be the owner? This contradicts the intellect and the fitrah.
And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them ولله ملك السموات والأرض وما بينهما
[Al-Ma'idah 5:17]
The ownership of the heavens, which are seven, and the earth, which is seven. The heavens, by the explicit text of the Qur'an, are seven
Say, "Who is Lord of the seven heavens and Lord of the Great Throne?" قل من رب السموات السبع ورب العرش العظيم
[Al-Mu'minun 23:86]
but the earth? The earth is not explicitly stated in the Qur'an to be seven, but in the Qur'an there is what indicates that it is seven.
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