Third, that wherever there is sex and procreation, it is there because individuals are mortal and for the survival of their species it is inevitable that they should beget children to perpetuate the race. Therefore, the assumption that God begets children necessitates that He should, God forbid, be a material and physical entity, should have a wife of His own species, and some substance also should issue from His body. Second, that children cannot be conceived unless the male and the female combine and some substance from the father and the mother unites to take the shape of child. And when, God forbid, he is of the same kind as God, it cannot be denied that he too possesses attributes of Godhead. for the adopted son of somebody can inevitably be of his own kind. This not only follows from assuming God begetting children but also from assuming that He has adopted someone as a son. _įirst, that God should not be One, but there should be a species of Gods, and its members should be associates in the attributes, acts and powers of Divinity. If these assumptions of ignorance are analysed, it becomes obvious that they logically necessitate the assumption of some other things as well. Although they could not dare call anyone as, God forbid, father of God, obviously human mind cannot remain immune against such a concept that God too should be regarded as a son of somebody when it is conceived that He is not tree from sex and procreation and that He too, like man, is the kind of being which begets children and needs to adopt a son in case it is childless, That is why one of the questions asked of the Holy Prophet (upon whom be peace) was: what is the ancestry of Allah? and another was: from whom has He inherited the world and who will inherit it after Him? Some people thought that those whom they regarded as Allah's children, were descended from him in the natural way and some others claimed that the one whom they called son of God, had been adopted by Allah Himself as a son. Two kinds of concepts have always been mixed up in these debasing superstitions. They too adopted the creed of holding one saintly person or another as son of God. The Prophetic communities too could not remain immune from this creed of paganism. Thus, the Arabian belief as stated in the Qur'an was that they regarded the angels as daughters of Allah. They did not even regard Allah, Lord of the universe, as supreme and above this concept of ignorance, and even proposed children for Him. *5) The polytheists in every age have adopted the concept that like men, gods also belong to a species, which has many members and they also get married, beget and are begotten. (112:3) He neither begot any nor was He begotten, *5 Lam yalid wa lam yoolad Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
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