Tafsir for verse: 10:68
قَالُواْ ٱتَّخَذَ ٱللَّهُ وَلَدٗاۗ سُبۡحَٰنَهُۥۖ هُوَ ٱلۡغَنِيُّۖ لَهُۥ مَا فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَا فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِۚ إِنۡ عِندَكُم مِّن سُلۡطَٰنِۭ بِهَٰذَآۚ أَتَقُولُونَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعۡلَمُونَ ٦٨ ﴿68
68They say, “Allah has got a son.” Pure is He. He is Self-Sufficient. To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth. You have no proof for it. Do you allege about Allah what you do not know?
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Commentary

And when there was no doubt regarding the claim of a child for Allah, glorified and exalted is He, nor did they have any insight into it in any way, He presented His saying: ﴿They said: He has taken﴾ meaning: He has made the effort to take by the cause of what we are accustomed to. ﴿Allah﴾ meaning: the one named by this name which necessitates that His naming by it means that He possesses all perfection, so He is not in need of anything in any way. ﴿A child﴾ is the context of the statement for His saying: ﴿They follow nothing but conjecture﴾ [Yunus: 66]. This is valid to be a wonder from those who claimed regarding the angels, or Uzair, or the Messiah, and others.

And when He was astonished by them in that due to its contradiction with what indicates deficiency regarding what has been established for Allah, the Exalted, from perfection as has passed, He glorified His noble self from it and said: ﴿Glorified is He﴾ meaning: He is free from every blemish of deficiency, completely free; then He explained His freedom from it and clarified it with His saying: ﴿He is﴾ meaning: alone ﴿the Self-Sufficient﴾ meaning: in need of no child or anything else because He is unique, free from parts, pieces, and similarity; then He clarified His self-sufficiency with His saying: ﴿To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens﴾ and when the context of the argument necessitated emphasis, He repeated

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