Section 2: Almighty God Has No Children
Almighty God is the Lord of all entities and all creation. God is unfettered by any natural causes, because He is the Creator of all that happens and the natural causes behind them. Everything in the universe takes place in association with specific causes. But our Lord has no need of these causes. Our Lord also created situations associated with human life such as parenthood, childhood and having children. Those who say that "God has a child" (surely God is beyond that) therefore fail to grasp the sublimity and attributes of God. Our Almighty Lord just decides on something and wills it to be to create it. Nothing is distant from Him. He is the One Who best knows His creations and predestines everything before their creation.
Those who attribute a son to God are people who do not know or cannot grasp these attributes of God as is due. As has already been mentioned, God reveals the effrontery of those who are unable to appreciate our Lord in these verses from the Koran:
They say, "The All-Merciful has a son."
They have devised a monstrous thing.
The heavens are all but rent apart and the Earth split open and the mountains brought crashing down, at their ascription of a son to the All-Merciful!
It is not fitting for the All-Merciful to have a son.
There is no one in the heavens and Earth who will not come to the All-Merciful as a servant. (Koran, 19:88-93)
As these verses clearly show, attributing a child to God is a grave offense, severe enough to bring the whole universe crashing down, and deserving the wrath of our Lord. Several verses of the Koran emphasize the fact that our Lord has no children. Verses explicitly state that our Lord is unfettered by having children, that "He has not given birth and was not born," and that nothing can be His equivalent:
Say: "He is God, Absolute Oneness, God, the Everlasting Sustainer of all. He has not given birth and was not born. And no one is comparable to Him." (Koran, 112:1-4)
No indeed, it is one of their blatant lies to say, "God has given birth." They are truly liars. (Koran, 37:151-152)
They say, "God has a son." Glory be to Him! He is the Rich Beyond Need. Everything in the heavens and everything on the Earth belongs to Him. Have you authority to say this or are you saying about God what you do not know? (Koran, 10:68)
If God had desired to have a son He would have chosen whatever He wished from what He has created. Glory be to Him! He is God, the One, the All-Conquering. (Koran, 39:4)
Our Lord is the absolute Ruler of the entire universe. Our Lord has no need of any partner or helper (surely God is beyond that). When He wishes a thing He tells it to "Be," and it is. As God reveals in verses:
He to Whom the Kingdom of the heavens and the Earth belongs. He does not have a son and He has no partner in the Kingdom. He created everything and determined it most exactly. (Koran, 25:2)
And say: "Praise be to God Who has had no son and Who has no partner in His Kingdom and Who needs no one to protect Him from abasement." And proclaim His Greatness repeatedly! (Koran, 17:111)
It is not fitting for God to have a son. Glory be to Him! When He decides on something, He just says to it, "Be!" and it is. (Koran, 19:35)
Almighty God reveals that He is warning those who say, "God has a son" through the Koran. This means that the Koran will show the true path to those Christians who have fallen into error regarding the Trinity. God prevents them from committing this major error by means of the Koran:
[This Koran is] to warn those who say "God has a son." They have no knowledge of this, neither they nor their fathers. It is a monstrous utterance which has issued from their mouths. What they say is nothing but a lie. (Koran, 18:4-5)
The above verses also set out how neither those who claim that God had a son nor those who went before them had any information on the subject, in other words, that this is a complete deception. God describes the danger posed by this ignorantly fabricated claim in the words, "It is a monstrous utterance which has issued from their mouths."
No, God is your Protector. And He is the best of helpers.
(Koran, 3:150)
(Koran, 3:150)
One verse in which our Lord says He has no son also states that there is no other deity than God:
God has no son and there is no other god accompanying Him, for then each god would have gone off with what he created and one of them would have been exalted above the other. Glory be to God above what they describe. (Koran, 23:91)
This verse totally discredits both claims made by those Christians who believe in the Trinity – that Jesus (pbuh) is the son of God and that he has divine status.
In the Koran, Almighty God revealed to our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) that he should respond as follows to those who make such claims:
Say: "If the All-Merciful had a son, I would be the first to worship him." (Koran, 43:81)
"Failing to properly appreciate God" means not comprehending the sublime attributes of God set out in verses. If someone goes along with belief in the Trinity, then he cannot have understood that God rules all things, that He has no need of instruments or helpers in order to create, that God could have a child if He wished but that He is unfettered by this, that He just says to it "Be" when He desires a thing and that all things in the earth and sky have submitted to His command. God has no need of creating any other deities from His essence. God knows what will be born before it is born, what will be said before it is spoken, what will be seen before people look and what is hidden in their hearts. In short, He knows everything from the beginning of time to the end. Our Lord reveals in one verse:
God, there is no deity but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness or sleep. Everything in the heavens and the Earth belongs to Him. Who can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them but they cannot grasp any of His knowledge save what He wills. His Footstool encompasses the heavens and the Earth and their preservation does not tire Him. He is the Most High, the Magnificent. (Koran, 2:255)
God's infinite might and power appears as follows in passages from the Gospel:
... Who is God over-all, forever praised. (Romans, 9:5)
... Great and marvelous are Your deeds, Lord God Almighty.... (Revelations, 15:3)
For no word from God will ever fail. (Luke, 1:37)
... for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. (Romans, 13:1)
For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans, 11:36)
Everything is submitted to Him. Nothing is left to its own devices. It is incumbent upon every entity to obey our Lord. God possesses a devastating, great and sublime might:
… when everything in the heavens and Earth, willingly or unwillingly, submits to Him … (Koran, 3:83)
Jesus (pbuh) Is a Servant Who Lives by a Profound Love of God
Our Lord says in the Gospel:
When God raised up His servant, He sent him [Jesus] first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways. (Acts of the Apostles, 3:26)
In a verse from the Koran God says:
The Messiah would never disdain to be a servant to God nor would the angels near to Him. If any do disdain to worship Him, and grow arrogant, He will in any case gather them all to Him. (Koran, 4:172)
As passages from the Gospel and verses of the Koran make clear, Jesus is a servant of God and as explicitly stated in this verse from the Koran, he is a lovely human being who delights in being a servant of God, who has submitted to Him and who is devoted to Him with a deep passion. The duty of serving God, which he undertakes with a profound love of Him, is unacceptable for some Christians. They misinterpret and deny the duty of service to God that he discharges with love and great delight.
The great majority of those who deny, despite the passages from the Gospel that we shall be examining in detail, that Jesus was created merely as a servant have probably fallen into that error out of ignorance. They imagine, out of their love for Jesus, that if they were to admit that he was a "servant" he would in some way become less valuable and they would be lacking in the appropriate respect for him. Yet the duty of service that Jesus discharged with love and enthusiasm, as an act of worship, was actually a great blessing for him and takes nothing away from his worth. On the contrary, service to God with such a great love made Jesus many times more valuable, raised his station in paradise and made him the beloved of masses of people. Being a servant and prophet who seeks to please God, being someone with a profound intelligence who praised and believed in God unconditionally throughout his life is the greatest of blessings for Jesus.
The fact that Jesus was created solely as a servant of God is also confirmed in other verses:
He [Jesus] said, "I am the servant of God, He has given me the Book and made me a Prophet." (Koran, 19:30)
It is revealed in another verse that Jesus is mortal and that, like all human beings, he will be resurrected in the hereafter:
"Peace be upon me the day I was born, and the day I die and the day I am raised up again alive." (Koran, 19:33)
When the time appointed by God comes, our beloved Prophet Jesus will be sent back down to Earth and will complete his work as messenger, together with Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), in the manner commanded by God. (This will be discussed in later sections of this book). Once Jesus (pbuh) has completed his duty in this world he will pass on, just like every other mortal human being, and his soul will be taken to paradise. Just as with everyone else, it is God Who creates his whole destiny, everything that will happen to him throughout his life. It is also God Who creates all the miracles he worked. Jesus performed these, not through himself, but through God's mercy on him. Throughout his life of this world, he expressed a powerful faith in God and called people to His straight path. It is a fact explicitly set out in the Gospel that Jesus called on people to believe in and serve God:
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'" (Luke, 4: 8)
This is how the Koran reveals that Jesus called on people to believe in God:
God is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him. This is a straight path. (Koran, 19:36)
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