Surah Al Imran 3:40
ﱨ ﱩ ﱪ ﱫ ﱬ ﱭ ﱮ ﱯ ﱰ ﱱ ﱲ ﱳ ﱴ ﱵ ﱶ ﱷ ﱸ ﱹ
He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when I have reached old age and my wife is barren?" The angel said, "Such is Allah; He does what He wills."
Tafsir of Al Imran 3:40-41
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Tafhim al-Quran
Verse range: 3:40-41
40
That is, "Despite your old age and the sterility of your wife, Allah will bestow upon you a son."
41
That is, "Give me a token to assure me beforehand of the birth of a son to an old man and a barren woman."
42
The main object of this discourse is to make the Christians realize the error of their belief in taking Jesus for the son of God, and making him an object of worship. The extraordinary birth of John has been mentioned in the Qur'an to serve as .introduction to the subsequent argument against their wrong belief. The miraculous birth of Jesus could no more entitle him to Divinity than the extraordinary birth of John, brought about in the same family in a different and unusual way could entitle the latter to Divinity.