It was also said that she was called a woman of great truthfulness because she believed in the signs of Allah, as the Exalted says in describing her: “And she believed in the words of her Lord” (al-Tahrim, 12).

“They both ate food,” that is, they lived on food and nourishment like all other human beings. So how can one who can only be sustained by eating food be a god?

It was also said that this is a euphemism for answering the call of nature, for whoever eats and drinks must inevitably urinate and defecate. How, then, can one with such a condition be a god?

Then He says: “See how We make the signs clear to them; then see how they are turned away”—that is, how they are diverted from the truth.

“The Messiah, son of Mary, was no more than a messenger; messengers had passed before him. His mother was a woman of great truthfulness. They both ate food. See how We make the signs clear to them; then see how they are turned away. (75) Say, ‘Do you worship, besides Allah, that which has no power to harm or benefit you?’ And Allah is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (76)”