—whether by attributing to Him a partner or a child—this legislation is more complete than any that came before it. It has also closed other avenues that lead to sin, such as its prohibition of even a small amount of an intoxicant, for a little of it draws one to much.

The basic prohibitions concerning which Allah says,

“Say: My Lord has forbidden only indecencies—open and hidden—sin, wrongful transgression, that you associate with Allah anything for which He has sent down no authority, and that you say about Allah what you do not know” (Al-Aʿrāf 7:33),

are matters on which all the prophets’ laws agree. This contrasts with the forbidding of wholesome things as a punishment, something found in the Law of the Torah but not in the Law of the Quran; for Allah has made all good things lawful for the nation of Muhammad and has forbidden them only what is foul.

Likewise, perfecting monotheism in every respect and blocking every doorway that leads to polytheism are distinctive features of this Sharia, even though all the prophets unanimously commanded monotheism and forbade assigning to Allah any partner or child.

Therefore, if the Messiah—peace be upon him—meant by “the Son” only the nāsūt (human nature), and he never called the lāhūt (divine nature) “Son,” and it has been stated that the Son does not know the Hour, then it is clear that the Messiah is only the human nature and that he does not know the Hour; and this is the truth.

But if they claim that by “the Son” he meant the lāhūt, or both the lāhūt and the nāsūt together, it would necessarily follow that the divine nature—or the union of the two—does not know the Hour, and this is false.