Now, anyone who has a God cannot himself be God, as you claim. Therefore, if you assert that the Messiah deserved divinity simply because Allah called him “son,” we are logically compelled to grant the same divinity to everyone whom He so named—otherwise, what difference is there?
He continued: If you maintain that Israel, David, and the like were called sons of Allah merely as a mark of mercy, whereas the Messiah is the Son of Allah in the literal and real sense—far exalted is Allah above such a notion—
we reply: An objector could just as easily turn the tables on you and say, “Why not hold that Israel and David are truly sons of Allah, while the Messiah is a son only by mercy? What distinction can you draw?”
If you then argue that the Messiah differs from the earlier prophets because he once approached a paralytic and said, “Rise! I have forgiven you,” whereupon the man stood up, and he did so without invoking Allah at that moment,
we answer: Elijah commanded the sky to send down rain and it rained, yet he did not call upon Allah at that moment; and likewise Elisha ordered Naaman the Roman to immerse himself in