And when it was from their greatest lies that which was indicated by His saying, the Most High: "And they said, 'The Most Merciful has taken a son.'" [Al-Anbiya: 26] He said: "Allah has not taken a son," meaning the One who has no equal. He emphasized the negation by saying: "of a child," not from the angels nor from others. This is when the evidence of His richness arose, and that there is no counterpart to Him. And when it became necessary for them, by their acknowledgment, that He grants protection and is not protected against, and that to Him belong the heavens and the earth and whoever is in them.

And when the child is more specific than the general partner, He said: "And there was not" meaning in any way "with Him". Thus, the act of existence negated the correctness to negate existence in the first place "of a god," and He added "of" for the emphasis of the negation. And when they were bound by the lie in the claim of divinity by a child or otherwise from their acknowledgment of this, He established upon them a rational proof so that the necessary and the rational would correspond. He said: "If there were with Him another god, then each god would have certainly taken away what he created," by acting in it alone to distinguish what belongs to him from what belongs to others. "And some of them would have certainly overpowered others" if their commands conflicted. No one among them would have been pleased to attribute what he created to another, nor to have a matter proceed in it contrary to his desire, as is required by custom. Thus, the defeated cannot be a god due to his inability, nor can the protector be one who is not protected against. In His hand alone is the dominion of all things, and in that is an indication that if that disagreement did not exist, it would have been possible for it to be. Therefore, its possibility is sufficient to invalidate partnership due to what necessitates that from the possibility of inability that contradicts divinity, as clarified in Al-Anbiya.

And when the evidence corresponded to the necessity of negating the partner, He glorified His noble self with that which is the result of that by saying: "Glorified is Allah," meaning the One characterized by all attributes of perfection, exalted above any blemish of deficiency "from what they describe" of everything that is not befitting to His sacred majesty, from partner, child, and others.