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The Verdict
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"The Truth (comes) from God alone; So be not of those who doubt.."
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"If anyone disputes in this matter with thee, Now after (full) knowledge hath come to thee, Say: 'Come ! Let us gather together, Our sons and your sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves; Then let us earnestly pray, and invoke the curse of God on those who lie!"
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This is the true account: There is no God except God; And God He is indeed The Exalted in Power, The Wise.
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But if they turn back, God hath full knowledge of those who do mischief.
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M. Muhammad Ali #445. :
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This chapter starts with a discussion of the Christian doctrines in particular. The persons addressed in particular in this verse are the members of the Christian Deputation from Najran that came in 10 A.H. This deputation, consisting of sixty men, was headed by 'Abd al-Masih, the chief of the Najran Christians (AH), and the members of the deputation were lodged in the Prophet's Mosque. The Prophet related to them arguments showing that Jesus Christ was not God , but a man and a Prophet. After having argued the question fully, and finding them still insisting in their false belief in the deity of Jesus, they were invited as a last resort to pray earnestly that the curse of Allah might overtake the party that insisted on falsehood. At first they showed readiness to enter this contest, but after some deliberation they decided against it. (Bukhari 64-74)
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In fact, the whole history of Mary and Jesus was enveloped in darkness until the Holy Quran announced their right position as two righteous servants of God and they rejected both extreme views, the Jewish view that Jesus was conceived in sin and was illegitimate and the Christian view that he was God or Son of God Who had entered Mary's womb. He was only who the Prophet described him to be in his controversy with the Najran Deputation when he said to them: "Do you not know that Jesus was conceived by a woman in a manner in which all women conceive? Then she was delivered of him as women are delivered of their children? Then he was fed as children are fed . Then he ate food and drank water and answered the call of nature as all mortals do?" The deputation replied to all of these questions in the affirmative, on which the Prophet said: "Then how can your claim that he was God or Son of God be true?" (IJ) The Prophet's clear argument which even the Christian deputation could not question settles the matter that Jesus was conceived in the ordinary manner and that Mary became a wife and mother in the ordinary way?
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See commentary #426 by Bashir Mahmud Ahmad and Commentary #400 by Yusuf Ali.
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