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مَا المَسيحُ ابنُ مَريَمَ إِلّا رَسولٌ قَد خَلَت مِن قَبلِهِ الرُّسُلُ وَأُمُّهُ صِدّيقَةٌ ۖ كانا يَأكُلانِ الطَّعامَ ۗ انظُر كَيفَ نُبَيِّنُ لَهُمُ الآياتِ ثُمَّ انظُر أَنّىٰ يُؤفَكونَ

Yusuf Ali

Christ the son of Mary was no more than a messenger; many were the messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth.1 They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how God doth make His signs clear to them;2 yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth!
  • She never claimed that she was a mother of God, or that her son was God. She was a pious and virtuous woman.
  • Note how logically the argument has led up from Jewish backslidings and want of faith, to blasphemies associated with the names of Jesus and Mary, and in the following verses to the worship of senseless sticks and stones. God is One; His Message is one; yet how people’s perversity transforms truth into falsehood, religion into superstition!