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Sura 112
Aya 3
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لَم يَلِد وَلَم يولَد

Mir Ahmed Ali

He1 begetteth not, nor is He Begotten,
  • Nothing has come out of Him, i.e., He has not begotten any issue. There is no son or daughter born of Him. To assign a son or a daughter to Him, is the greatest blasphemy. Nor is He born of any other being. There is no match or equal to Him in any aspect, in any meaning or in any sense of any of the divine qualities. To assign any wife or mate to Him is a gross blasphemy against His All-Divine Being.
    Since man is a limited being and he with his inherent limitations can not correctly conceive of things unknown to him but though some examples in the terms used for the things physical, certain terms have to be helplessly used, otherwise the essence or the qualities of God are beyond any description or definition with any amount of human knowledge with the maximum wealth of the linguistic expressions which man van ever coin in the mine of his intellect. Any thing man coins would be incomparably insignificant and hopelessly imperfect and miserably inadequate to deal with the matter connect with the knowledge of the Infinite.