Allah — exalted is He — has declared that His righteous servants will be in Paradise; He will not torment them in the Fire. Rather, He accepts from them the best of what they used to do and pardons their misdeeds, counting them among the people of the Garden. How, then, could He punish them for someone else’s sin when they themselves loathed the deed and forbade it?

Whoever alleges that the word “mā” in that verse was meant to include the Messiah, claiming that the clarification of a supposedly general term was postponed, or who answers that the particle “mā” applies only to things devoid of intellect — both views are weak, as has been explained in its proper place.

The polytheists, in fact, set a faulty analogy against a sound and explicit text; Allah Most High exposed the unsoundness of their argument and pointed out the difference between the precedent and the case in question.

Likewise, when some Christians objected to His words, “O sister of Aaron” ⦗Maryam 28⦘, thinking that this Aaron was Aaron, the brother of Moses son of