Thus they declared Him far above both of these notions, and these believing jinn are sounder in intellect and religion than those Christians.

The Exalted One said:

“The Originator of the heavens and the earth—how could He have a child when He has no consort? He created all things, and He is, of everything, All-Knowing.” (al-Anʿām 101)

His words, “how could He have a child,” mean: From where could He have a child? In Arabic the term annā means “from where is that?”—an interrogative expressing rejection.

He, glorified be He, therefore makes clear that it is impossible for Him to have a child when He has no consort, even though He is the Creator of everything; that such a child is impossible in itself; and that this impossibility is firmly established by plain reason.

Now, if the Word—which is the Creator through whom creation takes place—entered Mary’s body, fused with her substance, and from her created a human being, namely the Messiah, creating him for itself, veiling itself with him, and uniting with him—was its act of creating this human before that union and self-concealment, or at the very moment of it?

For once that stage is reached, the impossibility is manifest: it is inconceivable that, after veiling itself with him and uniting with him, it then created him; it must have created him either before the union and concealment or simultaneously with them.

If creation coincided with them, it would follow that the created being is perpetually united with the Creator, without a single instant passing