Section: Isaiah’s statement, “Among the most astonishing wonders is that the Lord of the angels will be born of mankind.”

They say:

Isaiah also said, “Among the most astonishing wonders is that the Lord of the angels will be born of mankind.”

It may be replied: A remark of this sort must have words before it and after it, and it has been carried over from one language into another. We know with absolute certainty that Isaiah did not mean the Lord of all worlds would be born of human beings; had he wished to say that, he would not have limited himself to the title “Lord of the angels,” for Allah is the Lord of everything. What he may have intended is that someone will be born from among human beings who will become the master of the angels—served and honoured by them—just as the angels bowed to Adam, the father of humanity.

Moreover, the Christians themselves concede that the lahūt (divinity) is not generated from human beings; what is generated from them is the nāsūt (humanity), and that, by unanimous agreement, is not the Lord of the worlds. It is therefore clear that they have no proof in the outward wording, even if we assume the text has come down to us unaltered.

A similar example is found in the Gospel of Matthew:

“The Son of Man will send forth his angels, and they will gather all the kings who domineered over the nations and will cast them into the furnace of fire.”

Some scholars of the People of the Scripture have said: he did not intend by this that the Messiah is the Lord