Qul in kana lilrrahmani waladun faana awwalu alAAabideena
English
Ahmed Ali
Say: "If Ar-Rahman had a son I would have been the first of worshippers."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (say) o muhammad to al-nadr ibn al-harith and 'alqamah: (the beneficent one hath no son. i am first among the worshippers) i am the first to acknowledge that allah has no son or partner.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : say: ‘if the compassionate one had a son, hypothetically [speaking], i would have been first among the worshippers, of that son; but it is established that he, exalted be he, does not have a child and thus there can be no worshipping of such [a child].
