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in the Most Merciful from you, if you are God-fearing”—that is, you fear Allah. The notion advanced by certain ignoramuses that there was once a licentious man among them called Taqī is sheer delirium—an obvious falsehood that only the uninformed could propagate.
He then said, “I am only a messenger of your Lord, to grant you a pure son.” In another canonical reading: {so that He may grant you a pure son} ⦗Maryam 19⦘.
Thus the Spirit who had appeared to her as a well-proportioned man informed her that he was the messenger of her Lord. The wording makes clear that this Spirit is a self-subsisting entity in its own right, not merely an attribute of someone else.
بِالرَّحْمَنِ مِنْكَ إِنْ كُنْتَ تَقِيًّا أَيْ تَتَّقِي اللَّهَ وَمَا يَقُولُ بَعْضُ الْجُهَّالِ مِنْ أَنَّهُ كَانَ فِيهِمْ رَجُلٌ فَاجِرٌ اسْمُهُ تَقِيٌّ فَهُوَ مِنْ نَوْعِ الْهَذَيَانِ وَهُوَ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ الظَّاهِرِ الَّذِي لَا يَقُولُهُ إِلَّا جَاهِلٌ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّمَا أَنَا رَسُولُ رَبِّكِ لِأهَبَ لَكِ غُلَامًا زَكِيًّا وَفِي الْقِرَاءَةِ الْأُخْرَى
{لِأَهَبَ لَكِ غُلَامًا زَكِيًّا}
[مريم: ١٩]
فَأَخْبَرَ هَذَا الرُّوحُ الَّذِي تَمَثَّلَ لَهَا بَشَرًا سَوِيًّا أَنَّهُ رَسُولُ رَبِّهَا فَدَلَّ الْكَلَامُ عَلَى أَنَّ هَذَا الرُّوحَ عَيْنٌ قَائِمَةٌ بِنَفْسِهَا لَيْسَتْ صِفَةً لِغَيْرِهَا