3 Preface وَأَنَّهُ تَعالىٰ جَدُّ رَبِّنا مَا اتَّخَذَ صاحِبَةً وَلا وَلَدًاYusuf Ali?And Exalted is the Majesty of our Lord: He has taken neither a wife nor a son.1They abjure paganism and also the doctrine of a son begotten by God, which would also imply a wife of whom he was begotten. Cf. 6:101.