He said:
“So these are his words and the words of his disciples, yet you have abandoned them and fastened yourselves to innovations your forefathers invented for you—innovations that lead only to misguidance and to associating partners with Allah, exalted is His praise.
David, in the second Psalm of his Zabur, addressing Allah and praising the Messiah, said:
‘What is man that You remember him,
or the human being whom You commanded?
You made him a little lower than the angels
and crowned him with glory and honor.’
He also said in the second Psalm:
‘The Lord said to me, “You are My son; today I have begotten you. Ask of Me, and I will give you …”’
His statement, ‘I have begotten you,’ proves that he is a being that came into existence and is therefore not eternal; and everything that comes into existence is created. He reinforced this by adding the word ‘today,’ fixing a definite point in time for the begetting and thereby removing any doubt that he did not exist before that day. Furthermore, his words, ‘Ask of Me, and I will give you,’ show that he is in need of petition and not independent of bestowed gifts.
He said:
‘This is what has reached us of the passages that establish the created nature and servitude of the Messiah and refute the claim to his divinity. The Gospels contain much more of the same—beyond counting. When the testimonies from the Messiah about himself, from the prophets concerning him, and from his disciples all concur with what we have set forth in this book, and when we have confined our proof against you to your own Scriptures, what argument remains for the doctrine you claim on his behalf? From what source have you taken it, and why have you chosen that repugnant discourse which departs from …’